rambunctious.

Full of noisy energy and difficult to keep orderly.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• rambunctious children
• a rambunctious celebration

On the page

The rambunctious celebration spilled from the kitchen into the stairwell.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more rambunctious; superlative most rambunctious when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character. Commonness: moderately common.