unruly : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: unruly	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for unruly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
unruly adj 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" Synonym(s): boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" Synonym(s): disobedient, unruly of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly" Synonym(s): indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Unruly \Unrul"y\, a. [Compar. {Unrulier}, superl. {Unruliest}.] [Pref. un- not + rule. Cf. {Ruly}.] 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.