rowdyish

adjective

Definition of rowdyishnext
as in rampageous

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rowdyish
  1. riotous
  2. carnival
  3. raffish
  4. boisterous
  5. rowdy
  6. raucous
  7. carnivalesque
  8. rambunctious
Adjective
  • The estimate of $3 million is also believed to be remarkably conservative for the actual damages incurred by the riotous attack.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The riotous dancing is, for the attendees, those lucky few, a salve on life’s burn.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Definition of riotous
Adjective
  • Customers at Starbucks will be introduced to a new interface with a carnival-style wheel.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The Square has spooky carnival-style games.
    — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
Definition of carnival
Adjective
  • The banal village tunes that Mahler altered into sinister mock vulgarities—did these not recall the raffish klezmer bands, the wandering musicians who played at shtetl weddings?
    — David Denby, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
  • There’s an over-the-top and overdressed fish out of water (me), a raffish Englishmen homesick for Great Britain (my husband Aidan, who will be mortified to read any of this), and an ensemble of quirky characters.
    — Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of raffish
Adjective
  • The boisterous comedian lights up the stage with sly wit and brazen confidence, conveying Moss’ righteous fury over being bottom of the office food chain.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
  • That honor goes to the Hot Brown, a sandwich allegedly created to sustain and sober up boisterous, late-night dancing guests at Louisville’s Brown Hotel in 1926.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2025
Definition of boisterous
Adjective
  • This time of year, Dee’s massive herding dogs have their work cut out for them: The spring kids have grown into rowdy teenagers.
    — Scott Clark as told to Betsy Andrews, Saveur, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The Kittredge house seems to have been a rowdy place.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025
Definition of rowdy
Adjective
  • After a two-year hiatus, South Park is gearing up for a raucous return, with the season 27 trailer indicating that things are about to get even crazier.
    — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Fans seemed ready to make Sutter Health Park a raucous home atmosphere.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Definition of raucous
Adjective
  • Well before last year’s trial, the blocks surrounding the Superior Court in Dedham developed a carnivalesque atmosphere.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Later that year, Spex leased a banquet hall in Ridgewood, Queens, that had oversize chandeliers and walls padded in kitschy diamond patterns and gave it a title befitting its carnivalesque interiors: the Dreamhouse.
    — Coco Romack, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of carnivalesque
Adjective
  • The true culprit, a rambunctious zebra, tears through the screen and plunges a normal suburban home into tumult with the help of some other animals and a stash of fireworks.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Tellez, now 30, was born Ryan John Tellez but became Rowdy because of his rambunctious nature while in the womb.
    — HECTOR AMEZCUA, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2025
Definition of rambunctious
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