Meaning

1 senses
  1. (US, informal)Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control.

    The kids are being especially rambunctious today.

    wild, vom Affen gebissen (fam.)

    бу́йныйbújnyj, бу́рныйbúrnyj, непокла́дистыйnepokládistyj

More definitions
  • noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The child continues to be rambunctious.

  2. These boys are rambunctious.

  3. Tom is a rambunctious child.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control:

Origin

A variant of rumbustious (“boisterous and unruly”).

A variant of rumbustious (“boisterous and unruly”).

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Forms

more rambunctious, most rambunctious
Comparativemore rambunctious Lesson
Superlativemost rambunctious Lesson

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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