unruly
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
a boisterous crowd
Related & opposite
- unruliness derivation
- boisterousness derivation
- disorderly similar to
Sense 2 adjective
unwilling to submit to authority
unruly teenagers
Related & opposite
- unruliness derivation
- disobedience derivation
- disobey derivation
- insubordinate similar to
Sense 3 adjective
of persons
the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly
Related & opposite
- unruliness derivation
- unmanageable similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unruliness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | boisterousness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | disorderly |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | unruliness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | disobedience |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | disobey |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | insubordinate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | unruliness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | unmanageable |