slovo | definícia |
boisterous (mass) | boisterous
- divoký, búrlivý |
boisterous (encz) | boisterous,bouřlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
boisterous (encz) | boisterous,divoký adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Boisterous (gcide) | 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.
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2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy
turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
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The waters swell before a boisterous storm. --Shak.
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The brute and boisterous force of violent men.
--Milton.
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3. Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous
behavior.
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I like not that loud, boisterous man. --Addison.
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4. Vehement; excessive. [R.]
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The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for
them. --Woodward.
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Syn: Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious;
tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.
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boisterous (wn) | boisterous
adj 1: 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: boisterous,
rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]
2: full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous
practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy" [syn: boisterous,
knockabout]
3: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and
waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra
Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: boisterous,
fierce, rough] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
boisterously (encz) | boisterously,bouřlivě adv: Zdeněk Brožboisterously,nespoutaně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
boisterousness (encz) | boisterousness,bouřlivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Boisterous (gcide) | 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.
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2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy
turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
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The waters swell before a boisterous storm. --Shak.
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The brute and boisterous force of violent men.
--Milton.
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3. Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous
behavior.
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I like not that loud, boisterous man. --Addison.
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4. Vehement; excessive. [R.]
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The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for
them. --Woodward.
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Syn: Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious;
tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.
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boisterous knockabout slapstick (gcide) | humourous \humourous\ adj.
same as humorous; causing amusement or laughter. [Narrower
terms: {bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek, witty ;
{boisterous, knockabout, slapstick ; {buffoonish, clownish,
zany}; {comic, comical, funny, laughable, risible ; {droll,
waggish ; {dry, ironic, ironical, pawky, wry ; {farcical,
ludicrous, ridiculous ; {Gilbertian ; {hilarious, uproarious
; jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund, joking; {merry,
mirthful}; {seriocomic, seriocomical ; {tragicomic,
tragicomical ; killing, sidesplitting] Also See:
pleasing.
Syn: humorous.
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Boisterously (gcide) | Boisterously \Bois"ter*ous*ly\, adv.
In a boisterous manner.
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Boisterousness (gcide) | Boisterousness \Bois"ter*ous*ness\, n.
The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence;
disorder; tumultuousness.
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boisterously (wn) | boisterously
adv 1: in a carefree manner; "she was rollickingly happy" [syn:
rollickingly, boisterously] |
boisterousness (wn) | boisterousness
n 1: a turbulent and stormy state of the sea
2: the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained |
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