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# boisterous

«boisterous» in Mova's school dictionary: **Noisy, lively and full of energy, often a bit rough:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (boisterous)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Noisy, lively and full of energy, often a bit rough: boisterous children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boisterous/#m1)

2) (of weather or the sea) Rough and stormy: a boisterous wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boisterous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school reports and stories it describes children or puppies who are loud and wild in play; teachers may ask them to calm down. In safety, boisterous play near roads, pools or stairs can lead to accidents. Phrases: boisterous play, boisterous crowd, boisterous puppy.

### examples

- The boisterous puppy jumped up at everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boisterous/#x1)
- The children were boisterous after the rainy lunchtime indoors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boisterous/#x2)
- Boisterous games are for the field, not the corridor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boisterous/#x3)
- A boisterous crowd cheered the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boisterous/#x4)
- The boisterous wind blew our tent over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boisterous/#x5)
- His laugh was loud and boisterous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boisterous/#x6)

### note

Spelling: boist-er-ous (with an "oi"). It is not always bad, but it suggests too much noise or roughness. Similar: rowdy, rough; opposite: calm, quiet.

### In the corpora

- ["Boisterous" means rough and noisy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boisterous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boisterous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.