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   obstreperous

   /əbˈstrɛp(ə)rəs/

   adjective

   • 1. noisy and difficult to control: "the boy is cocky and obstreperous"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the sense ‘clamorous, vociferous’): from Latin obstreperus (from obstrepere, from ob- ‘against’ + strepere ‘make a noise’) + -ous.

   Derivatives

   • 1. obstreperously adverb
   • 2. obstreperousness noun

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   What does obstreperous mean?

   • OBSTREPEROUS definition: 1. difficult to deal with and noisy: 2. difficult to deal with and noisy: . Learn more.

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   What is an obstreperous child?

   • hard to control, as children resisting adult discipline; unruly. Obstreperous children were sometimes thrashed with a cane in the old days. purposely noisy and boisterous. She refused to baby-sit for these obstreperous boys ever again.

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   What does obstrepere mean?

   • late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘clamorous, loud’): from Latin obstreperus (from obstrepere, from ob- ‘against’ + strepere ‘make a noise’) + -ous. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words. Try it for free as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app

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   What is an obstreperous Texican?

   • resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly. obstreperous children. Yeah, they may have been extreme or obstreperous or this or that, but they were good. Lots of things got in the way of that, notably the lousy economy, and secondly the obstreperous Republicans. In time the obstreperous Texicans developed revolutionary ideas.

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   Obstreperous means difficult to deal with and noisy, especially in a formal context. Learn how to use this adjective with sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus and translations in different languages.

   • English (US)

     difficult to deal with and noisy: obstreperous customers....

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     OBSTREPEROUS translate: 愛吵嚷的;喧鬧的;吵鬧不服管束的;難駕馭的. Learn more in...

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     OBSTREPEROUS translate: 爱吵嚷的;喧闹的;吵闹不服管束的;难驾驭的. Learn more in...

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   Obstreperous means boisterous, noisy, aggressive, defiant. You’ve probably seen an obstreperous child in the grocery store, pulling away from her mother, screaming at the top of her lungs.

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   Obstreperous means noisy and difficult to control. It is a formal or humorous word that can be used to describe people or animals. See examples, pronunciation, synonyms and word origin.

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