单词 | rambunctious |
释义 | rambunctious (once / 20809 pages) adj Rambunctious means "noisy and out of control," like a rambunctious child who is so hard to handle that no babysitter has ever come back a second time. People who are rambunctious, pronounced "ram-BUNK-shus," can be fun — to a point. Laughing a little too loudly, or too often, seems refreshing at first — so what if people sitting at other tables have started to look over? But after a while, rambunctious behavior makes you feel tired. You never know when the high energy of the rambunctious is going to cross over to obnoxiousness, when things will spill, feelings get hurt, and apologizes need to be made. WORD FAMILYrambunctious: rambunctiously USAGE EXAMPLESThis rambunctious show, which weds the Elizabethan theater and the brassy Broadway musical, dances dangerously on the line between tireless and tedious. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) But as the parent of two rambunctious toddlers, I applaud this seismic breakthrough. Wall Street Journal(Dec 07, 2016) The question was about controversial and rambunctious cornerbacks. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) adj noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand Syn boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly disorderly undisciplined and unruly |
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