Another word for unruly
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Adjective
Not submitting to discipline or control
- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Not inhabited or farmed:
- Uncivilized or barbarous.
- Improper; unseemly:
- Unfavorable or adverse:
- Difficult or impossible to manage or control:
- Difficult to carry or maneuver; unwieldy:
- Incapable of being governed, restrained, or controlled.
- Impossible to control or govern:
- Showing or characterized by obstinate resistance to authority or control:
- Difficult to melt or work; resistant to heat:
- Resistant to treatment:
- Stubbornly resistant to or defiant of authority or guidance.
- Difficult to manage or deal with:
- Resistant to chemical decomposition; decomposing extremely slowly.
- Noisily unruly or defiant:
- Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate.
- Characterized by such adherence:
- Difficult to manage, control, or treat:
- Unrestrained by law; unruly:
- Contrary to the law; unlawful:
- Not governed by law:
- Difficult to manage, deal with, or change to an acceptable condition:
- Difficult to alleviate, remedy, or cure:
- Difficult to persuade or keep under control, as in behavior:
- Resistant to authority or discipline; recalcitrant.
- Inclined to make trouble; unruly.
- Having a peevish nature; cranky.
- Lacking regular or logical order or arrangement:
- Undisciplined; unruly:
- Disturbing the public peace or decorum.
Idioms:
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Another word for unruly
Modifier
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- Involving or filled with danger; perilous.
- Being able or likely to do harm.
- Moving quickly and lightly; lively.
- Restlessly active or nervous; restive.
- Undependably variable; mercurial or fickle.
- firmly resolved or recklessly determined
- moving fast or recklessly
- Eye dialect spelling of raring.
- To be used to convey; denote:
- To act as a symbol of; signify or represent:
- To intend to convey or indicate:
- Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.
- Careless and irresponsible:
- Feeble or ineffective:
- Stubborn and arrogant or aloof.
- Incapable of being governed, restrained, or controlled.
- Extremely or irrationally stubborn; headstrong.
- Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions.
- Obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate.
- Lacking regular or logical order or arrangement:
- Undisciplined; unruly:
- Disturbing the public peace or decorum.
- Moving rapidly or violently:
- Characterized by disorder, commotion, or unrest:
- Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate.
- Characterized by such adherence:
- Difficult to manage, control, or treat:
- Refusing to change one's mind or course of action despite pressure to do so; unyielding or resolute.
- Characterized by a refusal to change one's mind or course of action; dogged or persistent:
- Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort:
- Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
- Showing or expressing bitter opposition or hostility; aggressively defiant:
- Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
- Given to or characterized by licentiousness or dissipation:
- Given to or characterized by reckless waste; wildly extravagant:
- A profligate person.
- Deserted; forsaken.
- Exuberantly enthusiastic.
- Recklessly unrestrained.
- Offensively bold or disrespectful; insolent or impertinent.
- Immodest.
- Having a proud or unbroken spirit:
- Vivacious; lively:
- Difficult or impossible to control or restrain:
- Not governed by or based on reason:
- Exceeding reasonable limits; immoderate:
- Not endowed with reason.
- Affected by loss of usual or normal mental clarity; incoherent, as from shock.
- Marked by a lack of accord with reason or sound judgment:
- A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.
- Fanatical.
- Extremely or irrationally stubborn and intractable.
- Resembling a mule:
- Stubbornly persevering; tenacious:
- Characterized by or full of force; effective:
- Not easily bent; stiff or rigid.
- Incapable of being changed; unalterable:
- Refusing to change one's attitude, purpose, or principles; immovable:
- Firm or determined; unwavering.
- Not changing in response to argument or other influence; obstinate or intractable:
- Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent:
- Hardened against feeling; hardhearted:
- Difficult to carry or manage because of size, shape, weight, or complexity:
- Impossible to move.
- Incapable of movement.
- Impossible to alter:
- Given to quarreling; contentious.
- Marked by quarreling.
- Humorously coarse; lewd or risqué:
- Disorderly; rough:
- A rough, disorderly person.
- Having no official license.
- Done without permission; not authorized.
- Lacking moral restraint; unrestrained.
- Mean-spirited or deliberately hurtful; malicious:
- Extremely violent or injurious; cruel:
- Marked by an aggressive disposition. Used chiefly of animals.
- Unrestrained by law; unruly:
- Contrary to the law; unlawful:
- Not governed by law:
- Delirious with or as if with strong drink; intoxicated.
- Habitually drunk.
- Of, involving, or occurring during intoxication:
- Not temperate or moderate, especially in rhetoric or tone; unrestrained:
- Given to excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Incapable of being corrected or reformed:
- Firmly rooted; ineradicable:
- Difficult or impossible to control or manage:
- Not giving way to pressure; hard or inflexible:
- Incapable of being changed; unalterable:
- Not willing to change or be persuaded; resolute:
- Stubbornly prejudiced, narrow-minded, or inflexible.
- Having abnormally dry, stiff skin that adheres closely to the underlying flesh. Used of domestic animals such as cattle.
- Having the bark so contracted and unyielding as to hinder growth. Used of trees.
- Incapable of being penetrated:
- Incapable of being affected:
- Uneasily impatient or hard to control under restriction, opposition, criticism, or delay:
- Characterized by impatience or an absence of calm; unsettled:
- Refusing to move. Used of a horse or other animal.
- Impossible to stop, alter, or resist; inevitable:
- Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless:
- Deviating from what is desired, expected, or required, especially in being disobedient or in gratifying one's own inclinations:
- Difficult or impossible to manage, control, or keep in order:
- Going somewhere not intended or desired:
- Prone to or participating in a rebellion:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a rebel or rebellion:
- Characterized by or expressing resistance to or defiance of authority or convention:
- Showing or characterized by obstinate resistance to authority or control:
- Difficult to melt or work; resistant to heat:
- Resistant to treatment:
- determined to advance one's own personality or views
- Stubbornly resistant to or defiant of authority or guidance.
- Difficult to manage or deal with:
- Resistant to chemical decomposition; decomposing extremely slowly.
- Difficult to manage, deal with, or change to an acceptable condition:
- Difficult to alleviate, remedy, or cure:
- Difficult to persuade or keep under control, as in behavior:
- Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved:
- Characterized by or resulting from willful opposition or resistance to what is right, expected, or reasonable:
- Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
- Marked by or paying little heed; unmindful or thoughtless.
- Audacious and gallant; spirited:
- Marked by showy elegance; splendid:
- Acting or done with a lack of care or caution; careless or irresponsible.
- Resulting from or acting with ill-considered haste or boldness.
- Performed, carried out, or done without the benefit of wise counsel or careful prior deliberation.
- Acting or done quickly with little or inadequate thought.
- Having or marked by violent force:
- Inclined to act on impulse rather than thought.
- Motivated by or resulting from impulse:
- Having force or power to impel or incite; forceful.
- Causing or intending to cause damage, injury, or death, often when involving great force:
- Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
- Caused by unexpected force or injury rather than by natural causes:
- At, near, or belonging to the front or forepart; fore:
- Located ahead or in advance:
- Going, tending, or moving toward a position in front:
- At, near, or belonging to the front or forepart; fore:
- Located ahead or in advance:
- Going, tending, or moving toward a position in front:
- Determined to have one's own way; stubbornly and often recklessly willful.
- Resulting from willfulness and obstinacy:
- Said or done on purpose; deliberate:
- Obstinately bent on having one's own way:
- Impossible to control or govern:
Antonyms:
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