Word Meanings - UNRULY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii. 8.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNRULY)

• Insurgent
• Rebellious
• unruly
• Mutinous
• Turbulent
• seditious
• insurgent
• riotous
• tumultuous
• refractory
• insurrectionary
• Refractory
• Perverse
• contumacious
• stubborn
• obstinate
• unmanageable
• mutinous
• rebellious
• recalcitrant
• Tumultuous
• Disorderly
• disturbed
• confused
• turbulent
• agitate
• lawless
• Vicious
• Corrupt
• faulty
• defective
• bad
• morbid
• peccant
• debased
• profligate
• impure
• depraved

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNRULY)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to UNRULY)

• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• MUTINOUS
  Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate. The city was becoming mutinous. Macaulay. -- Mu"ti*nous*ly, adv. -- Mu"ti*nous*ness, n.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• RIOTOUS
  1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. 2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• DEBASINGLY
  In a manner to debase.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• TURBULENTLY
  In a turbulent manner.
• DEBASED
  Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• PROFLIGATENESS
  The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• CORRUPTIVE
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• CONVICIOUS
  Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .