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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOIS'TEROUS, a.
1. Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; as a boisterous wind.
2. Turbulent; furious; tumultuous; noisy; as a boisterous man.
3. Large; unwieldy; huge; clumsily violent; as a boisterous club.
4. Violent; as a boisterous heat.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English boistous crude, clumsy, from Anglo-French Date: 14th century 1. obsolete a. coarse b. durable, strong c. massive 2. a. noisily turbulent ; rowdy b. marked by or expressive of exuberance and high spirits 3. stormy, tumultuous Synonyms: see vociferous • boisterously adverb • boisterousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of a person) rough; noisily exuberant. 2 (of the sea, weather, etc.) stormy, rough. Derivatives: boisterously adv. boisterousness n. Etymology: var. of ME boist(u)ous, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm. --Shak. The brute and boisterous force of violent men. --Milton. 3. Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior. I like not that loud, boisterous man. --Addison. 4. Vehement; excessive. [R.] The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. --Woodward. Syn: Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious; tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy. ...a boisterous but good-natured crowd... Most of the children were noisy and boisterous. ADJ • boisterously Her friends laughed boisterously, too. ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Roaring, loud, stormy. 2. Noisy, furious, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, impetuous. 3. Noisy, vociferous, clamorous, obstreperous, loud.

Moby Thesaurus

blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, brassy, brawling, brazen, bullying, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, disorderly, exuberant, harum-scarum, hectoring, knock-down-and-drag-out, knockabout, lively, loudmouthed, mafficking, multivocal, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, raging, rambunctious, rampageous, ranting, raucous, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, rowdyish, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, strident, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, termagant, tumultuous, turbulent, undisciplined, unruly, uproarious, vociferant, vociferous, wild