Word Meanings - BOISTEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak. 2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm.

Additional info about word: BOISTEROUS

1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak. 2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The brute and boisterous force of violent men. Milton. 3. Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior. I like not that loud, boisterous man. Addison. 4. Vehement; excessive. The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. Woodward. Syn. -- Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious; tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BOISTEROUS)

• Rough
• Uneven
• harsh
• bristly
• scabrous
• rugged
• knotty
• unpolished
• boisterous
• tempestuous
• stormy
• coarse
• craggy
• gruff
• crude
• severe
• shaggy
• disordered
• unrefined
• uncourteous
• rude
• unshaped
• churlish
• blunt
• Rude
• Impertinent
• rough
• shapeless
• unfashioned
• artless
• uncouth
• inelegant
• rustic
• vulgar
• clownish
• raw
• unskilful
• untaught
• illiterate
• ignorant
• uncivil
• saucy
• impolite
• impudent
• insolent
• surly
• brutal
• uncivilized
• barbarous
• savage
• violent
• tumultuous
• turbulent
• Impetuous
• inclement
• Insulting
• grotesque
• barbaric
• archaic
• Tempestuous
• Stormy
• squally

Related words: (words related to BOISTEROUS)

• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• IMPUDENT
  Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden. Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen;
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• ILLITERATE
  Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people. Syn. -- Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See Ignorant. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ness, n.
• INCLEMENT
  1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• TURBULENTLY
  In a turbulent manner.
• UNCIVILTY
  In an uncivil manner.
• DRUGGET
  perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. By extension, any material used for the same purpose.
• DRUGGER
  A druggist. Burton.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET