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- Dictionaryunruly/ʌnˈruːli/
adjective
- 1. disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control: "a group of unruly children"
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UNRULY definition: 1. Unruly people are difficult to control and often do not obey rules: 2. Unruly hair is difficult…. Learn more.
Synonyms for UNRULY: rebellious, rebel, defiant, stubborn, wayward, willful, obstreperous, disobedient; Antonyms of UNRULY: docile, obedient, submissive, amiable, compliant, cooperative, tractable, amenable
The meaning of UNRULY is not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed. How to use unruly in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Unruly.
Unruly definition: not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless. See examples of UNRULY used in a sentence.
unruly suggests persistently disorderly behavior or character in persons or things: an unruly child, peevish and willful; wild, unruly hair. intractable suggests in persons a determined resistance to all attempts to guide or direct them, in things a refusal to respond to attempts to shape, improve, or modify them: an intractable social rebel; a ...
When someone is unruly, they've thrown the rules out of the window. An unruly person refuses to obey authority, while an unruly piece of hair might refuse to stay inside a clip. And if a cat herder had trouble corralling kittens for a parade, there would be unruly kittens everywhere!
Definition of unruly adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Aug 21, 2015 · UNRULY meaning: 1. Unruly people are difficult to control and often do not obey rules: 2. Unruly hair is difficult…. Learn more.
1. Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule: The substitute teacher faced unruly students in the classroom. 2. Difficult to keep in place or in order: tried to comb his unruly hair; trimmed back the unruly bushes. [Middle English unreuli : un-, not; see un-1 + reuli, easy to govern (from reule, rule; see rule).] un·ru′li·ness n.
Unruly, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory describe persons or things that resist management or control. Unruly suggests persistently disorderly behavior or character in persons or things: an unruly child, peevish and willful; wild, unruly hair.
