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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
boisterous
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A large, boisterous crowd poured into the bar, singing and shouting noisily.
▪ Dan's a nice boy, but rather boisterous.
▪ During his speech police in riot gear watched over a boisterous crowd.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was very loud and boisterous about being gay, and he lost.
▪ I envisioned play would be a static simulation of the boisterous on-the-floor rivalries I shared with my siblings.
▪ She had been boisterous and sharp, a humorous woman, a woman of decision.
▪ They were incredibly noisy and boisterous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boisterous

Boisterous \Bois"ter*ous\, a. [OE. boistous; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwyst wild, savage, wildness, ferocity, bwystus ferocious.]

  1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [Obs.] ``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. [R.]

    The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them.
    --Woodward.

    Syn: Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious; tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
boisterous

late 15c., unexplained alteration of Middle English boistous (c.1300) "rough, coarse (as of food), clumsy, violent," which is of unknown origin, perhaps from Anglo-French bustous "rough (road)," which is perhaps from Old French boisteos "curved, lame; uneven, rough" (Modern French boiteux), itself of obscure origin. Another guess traces it via Celtic to Latin bestia. Used of persons from 1560s. Related: Boisterously; boisterousness.

Wiktionary
boisterous

a. 1 Full of energy; exuberant; noisy. 2 Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy. 3 Having or resembling animal exuberance.

WordNet
boisterous
  1. 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" [syn: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]

  2. full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy" [syn: knockabout]

  3. violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: fierce, rough]

Usage examples of "boisterous".

Anrak, with his boisterous, good-humored laughter, was the perfect one to make them palatable.

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Polgara looked upon the centuries she was obliged to spend in the boisterous Alorn kingdoms as a period of exile.

The addition of the boisterous, red-haired Wildantor turned our little reunion into an extended party, and I was enjoying myself immensely.

The sloops hung on the offing, the hunting brigades, led by Baranof in one of the big skin canoes, paddling for the surf wash and kelp fields of the boisterous, rocky coast, which sea-otter frequent in rough weather.

She had the same kind of sexual stamina as Jezzibella, boisterous and frighteningly energetic.

Zamjan towards the Quallheim Counties, carrying its boisterous passenger complement of four Confederation Navy Marines, and three Kulu ESA tactical operation agents.

This speech seemed to tickle the other prodigiously, for he burst into a loud and boisterous laugh, under cover of which he thrust his pistol back into his coat-pocket again.

At these words Captain Obadiah, being thrown so suddenly upon his defence, forced himself to give forth a huge and boisterous laugh.

Looking around the room, she thought she had never seen so many boisterous people in one place before.

I eyed it wistfully for a moment, and then, unable any longer to stand on ceremony, plunged my hand into the yielding mass, and to the boisterous mirth of the natives drew it forth laden with the poee-poee, which adhered in lengthy strings to every finger.

May the heathen ruler of the winds confine in iron chains the boisterous limbs of noisy Boreas, and the sharp-pointed nose of bitter-biting Eurus.

Many is the time I have espied you gazing longingly at the boisterous crowds in alehouses.

The cunning wizard allowed some moments to transpire, following the first tentative steps of the dwarf into the boisterous environs of the pub.

They were a boisterous bunch, except Merita, who ate in silence, a little remote from the rest.

There were also some boisterous high spirits directed toward womanizing and drinking-ingredients found at any sales convention of any industry anywhere.