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UK
/bˈɔɪstəɹəs/
]
[ US /ˈbɔɪstɝəs, ˈbɔɪstɹəs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɔɪstɝəs, ˈbɔɪstɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
knockabout comedy
boisterous practical jokes -
noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings
a boisterous crowd
a robustious group of teenagers
a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand
an unruly class -
violently agitated and turbulent
boisterous winds and waves
rough seas
the fierce thunders roar me their music
rough weather
How To Use boisterous In A Sentence
- It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
- Not so much a summer scorcher, then, but a hot ticket that remains boisterously good fun for the undemanding multiplex-goers.
- Lezinka, a boisterous dance in a raging tempo, drums ablaze, that is popular in the The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- He pauses, shakes his head, then boisterously proclaims, ‘Aw, gee whiz, I guess that means the hot dogs are on me, gang!’
- Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
- He was embarrassed and even ashamed of his indiscretion, but then he realized that there was no way he could have been heard above the roar of the boisterous crowd.
- On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that
- In Beethoven's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 44, the trio contrasted the music's delicacy with sheer boisterousness. Emerson opens string quartet festival with well-played Schonberg
- I envisioned play would be a static simulation of the boisterous on-the-floor rivalries I shared with my siblings.
- This is a proper old boisterous boozer that just happens to serve fabulous food, and has been doing so for the past ten years. Times, Sunday Times