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Adjective unruly has 3 senses
- boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly - 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"
Antonym: orderly (indirect, via disorderly)
- disobedient, unruly - unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers"
Antonym: subordinate (indirect, via insubordinate)
- indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly - of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"
Antonym: manageable (indirect, via unmanageable)
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