unruly

Adjective

• of persons
  • the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly
    

• unwilling to submit to authority
  • unruly teenagers
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  indocile , uncontrollable , ungovernable , disobedient , boisterous , rambunctious , robustious , rumbustious