Usually means: Uncontrollably exuberant and boisterously wild.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. rambunctious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rambunctious: Merriam-Webster
  3. rambunctious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rambunctious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rambunctious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rambunctious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rambunctious, rambunctious: Wordnik
  8. rambunctious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rambunctious: Wiktionary
  10. rambunctious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rambunctious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rambunctious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rambunctious: Dictionary.com
  14. rambunctious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rambunctious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. rambunctious: Rhymezone
  17. rambunctious: FreeDictionary.org
  18. rambunctious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. rambunctious: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Rambunctious: World Wide Words
  21. rambunctious: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rambunctious: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rambunctious: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (chiefly US, informal) Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control.

Similar:
rumbustious, robustious, boisterous, disorderly, unruly, rampageous, rumgumptious, rampagious, obstreperous, uproarish, more...

Opposite:
subdued, calm, quiet, gentle

Types:
unruly, boisterous, wild, uncontrollable, feral, more...

Phrases:
rambunctious playful, more...

Colors:
    neon green,     electric blue,     hot pink,     fiery red,     sunshine yellow, more...


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Similar:
rumbustious, robustious, boisterous, disorderly, unruly, rampageous, rumgumptious, rampagious, obstreperous, uproarish, more...

Opposite:
subdued, calm, quiet, gentle

Types:
unruly, boisterous, wild, uncontrollable, feral, more...

Phrases:
rambunctious playful, more...

Colors:
    neon green,     electric blue,     hot pink,     fiery red,     sunshine yellow, more...



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