What is another word for obstreperous?

Pronunciation: [ɒbstɹˈɛpəɹəs] (IPA)

Obstreperous refers to being noisy, unruly, or difficult to control. It is often used to describe people who are rowdy and disruptive. Some synonyms for the word obstreperous include boisterous, unruly, raucous, and tumultuous. These words all communicate a sense of disorder or chaos. Other synonyms for the word include uncontrollable, disobedient, and unmanageable. These words convey the idea that the person in question is difficult to handle or control. Regardless of which synonym is used, they all share the same meaning: someone who is acting in a disruptive or unruly manner.

Synonyms for Obstreperous:

What are the hypernyms for Obstreperous?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for obstreperous?

Obstreperous refers to someone who is noisy, unruly and difficult to control. Antonyms for the word, therefore, would include adjectives such as quiet, obedient, docile, peaceful, meek, tractable and submissive. These words describe individuals who are the complete opposite of someone who is obstreperous. Quiet, such as a church mouse, means someone who is gentle and shy, whereas obedient implies someone who follows all rules and regulations. Docile refers to someone who is easily manageable, peaceful denotes someone who is calm, meek as an individual who is submissive to authority, tractable denotes someone who is easily guided, and submissive refers to someone who willingly submits to another person's authority.

Usage examples for Obstreperous

This unknown personage could not be an old gentleman; for old gentlemen are not apt to be so obstreperous to chamber-maids.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
These too, cheated by that rising cloud of the spectacle they had come so far to see, wanted to have a little fun, and began to be very obstreperous.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
He knew from experience that the most obstreperous friend "opposite" was easier to deal with than a pretty niece.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer

Famous quotes with Obstreperous

  • When one exchanged the rowing-seat for a place in the bottom of the boat, he suffered a bodily depression that caused him to be careless of everything save an obligation to wiggle one finger. There was cold sea-water swashing to and fro in the boat, and he lay in it. His head, pillowed on a thwart, was within an inch of the swirl of a wave crest, and sometimes a particularly obstreperous sea came in-board and drenched him once more. But these matters did not annoy him. It is almost certain that if the boat had capsized he would have tumbled comfortably out upon the ocean as if he felt sure it was a great soft mattress.
    Stephen Crane
  • Evidently, there is a political element in the attack on The Satanic Verses which has killed and injured good if obstreperous Muslims in Islamabad, though it may be dangerously blasphemous to suggest it. The Ayatollah Khomeini is probably within his self-elected rights in calling for the assassination of Salman Rushdie, or of anyone else for that matter, on his own holy ground. To order outraged sons of the Prophet to kill him, and the directors of Penguin Books, on British soil is tantamount to a jihad. It is a declaration of war on citizens of a free country, and as such it is a political act. It has to be countered by an equally forthright, if less murderous, declaration of defiance....I do not think that even our British Muslims will be eager to read that great vindication of free speech, which is John Milton’s . Oliver Cromwell’s Republic proposed muzzling the press, and Milton replied by saying, in effect, that the truth must declare itself by battling with falsehood in the dust and heat....I gain the impression that few of the protesting Muslims in Britain know directly what they are protesting against. Their Imams have told them that Mr Rushdie has published a blasphemous book and must be punished. They respond with sheeplike docility and wolflike aggression. They forgot what Nazis did to books … they shame a free country by denying free expression through the vindictive agency of bonfires....If they do not like secular society, they must fly to the arms of the Ayatollah or some other self-righteous guardian of strict Islamic morality. ['Islam's Gangster Tactics', in the London newspaper , 1989]
    Anthony Burgess
  • In the school of Pythagoras, taciturnity was the symbol of abstracted and superlative knowledge, and the silence of the Egyptians was agnited as an expressive manner of divine adoration; this caused the pontiffs of Hierapolis to sacrifice to the great deity in silence, impercussively, without any vociferous or obstreperous sound.Tabachins, a panacea
    François Rabelais

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