Associations to the word «Boisterous»

Wiktionary

BOISTEROUS, adjective. Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
BOISTEROUS, adjective. Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.
BOISTEROUS, adjective. Having or resembling animal exuberance.

Dictionary definition

BOISTEROUS, adjective. Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class".
BOISTEROUS, adjective. Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy".
BOISTEROUS, adjective. Violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats