Usually means: Noisy, difficult to control, unruly.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word obstreperous:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. obstreperous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. obstreperous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obstreperous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obstreperous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obstreperous: Vocabulary.com
  6. obstreperous: Wordnik
  7. obstreperous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. obstreperous: Wiktionary
  9. obstreperous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. obstreperous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. obstreperous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Obstreperous, obstreperous: Dictionary.com
  13. obstreperous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Obstreperous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Obstreperous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. obstreperous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. obstreperous: Rhymezone
  18. obstreperous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. obstreperous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. obstreperous: Free Dictionary
  21. obstreperous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. obstreperous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. obstreperous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. obstreperous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. obstreperous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obstreperous: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. obstreperous: A Word A Day
  2. obstreperous: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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▸ adjective:  Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
▸ adjective:  Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.

Similar:
aggressive, defiant, streperous, overboisterous, strepitous, boisterous, boysterous, robustious, boystrous, tumultuous, more...

Opposite:
docile, meek, tractable

Types:
unruly, disorderly, tumultuous, boisterous, noisy, raucous, rowdy, rumbustious, more...
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Similar:
aggressive, defiant, streperous, overboisterous, strepitous, boisterous, boysterous, robustious, boystrous, tumultuous, more...

Opposite:
docile, meek, tractable

Types:
unruly, disorderly, tumultuous, boisterous, noisy, raucous, rowdy, rumbustious, more...



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