Adjacent Words

robustious definitions

	Tweet

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1548 1. robust 2. vigorous in a rough or unrefined way ; boisterous • robustiously adverb • robustiousness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Robustious Ro*bus"tious, a. [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.] Robust. [Obs. or Humorous] --W. Irving. In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner. --Milton. -- Ro*bus"tious*ly, adv. -- Ro*bus"tious*ness, n.