Unruly Synonyms and Antonyms

ŭn-ro͝olē
Not submitting to discipline or control
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. intractable
  2. disorderly
  3. lawless
  4. indocile
  5. recalcitrant
  6. ungovernable
  7. refractory
  8. uncontrollable
  9. obstinate
  10. obstreperous
  11. forward
  12. headstrong
  13. rebellious
  14. fractious
  15. boisterous
  16. rowdy
  17. restive
  18. violent
  19. undisciplined
  20. willful
  21. wayward
  22. vicious
  23. ornery
  24. rambunctious
  25. stubborn
  26. turbulent
  27. unmanageable
  28. wild
  29. impulsive
  30. uncurbed
  31. impetuous
  32. ill-advised
  33. rash
  34. reckless
  35. dashing
  36. heedless
  37. perverse
  38. self-assertive
  39. inexorable
  40. impervious
  41. hidebound
  42. unyielding
  43. incorrigible
  44. intemperate
  45. drunken
  46. difficult
  47. brawling
  48. unlicensed
  49. disobedient
  50. bawdy
  51. quarrelsome
  52. feral
  53. mob-minded
  54. immovable
  55. unwieldy
  56. obdurate
  57. resolute
  58. froward
  59. inflexible
  60. forceful
  61. dogged
  62. mulish
  63. fanatic
  64. insubordinate
  65. irrational
  66. unreasonable
  67. insurgent
  68. irrepressible
  69. high-spirited
  70. impudent
  71. abandoned
  72. profligate
  73. mutinous
  74. truculent
  75. contumacious
  76. self-willed
  77. opinionated
  78. rampageous
  79. bullheaded
  80. rampant
  81. stiff-necked
  82. raucous
  83. feckless
  84. mean
  85. rarin
  86. chafing at the bit
  87. recusant
  88. hellbent
  89. skittish
  90. dangerous
  91. riotous
  92. untoward
  93. stormy
  94. tumultuous
  95. unbridled
  96. wanton
  97. robustious
  98. rumbustious
Antonyms:
  1. docile
  2. tractable
  3. responsive
Disobedient
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. disobedient
Antonyms:
  1. compliant
  2. obedient
  3. yielding

Words Related to Unruly

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Unruly Sentence Examples

  • One face stood out, a shock of unruly red hair waving in the wind.

  • The sailors were rude and unruly.

  • He had to contend with his unruly nobles, several of whom he put to death.

  • His fame lives in Eastern history as the conqueror who stemmed the tide of Western conquest on the East, and turned it definitely from East to West, as the hero who momentarily united the unruly East, and as the saint who realized in his personality the highest virtues and ideals of Mahommedanism.

  • In 1268 he took the cross with his cousin Edward, who, however, sent him back from Sicily to pacify the unruly province of Gascony.

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