"obstreperous" meaning in English

See obstreperous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /əbˈstɹɛp.əɹ.əs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɒbˈstɹɛp.əɹ.əs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əbˈstɹɛpəɹəs/ [US], /ɑːbˈstɹɛpəɹəs/ [US] Audio: en-us-obstreperous.ogg Forms: more obstreperous [comparative], most obstreperous [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin obstreperus, first attested circa 17th c. Compare obstropulous. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|obstreperus}} Latin obstreperus, {{C.|17}} 17th c. Head templates: {{en-adj}} obstreperous (comparative more obstreperous, superlative most obstreperous)
  1. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous. Synonyms: clamorous, loud, noisy, vociferous Translations (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise): صاخب (Arabic), шумен (šumen) (Bulgarian), luidruchtig (Dutch), rettelöivä (Finnish), meluisa (Finnish), ungestüm (German), tumultartig (German), dröhnend (German), polternd (German), polterhaft (German), hałaśliwy (Polish), espalhafatoso (Portuguese), галасливий (halaslyvyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), шумний (šumnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-obstreperous-en-adj-WvTYw8AT Disambiguation of 'attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise': 96 4
  2. Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not. Synonyms: recalcitrant, uncooperative, unruly, obstinate Translations (stubbornly defiant): مُشَاكِس (mušākis) [masculine] (Arabic), буен (buen) (Bulgarian), необуздан (neobuzdan) (Bulgarian), weerbarstig (Dutch), uhmakas (Finnish), kuriton (Finnish), niskoitteleva (Finnish), récalcitrant (French), aufsässig (German), aufmüpfig (German), ungebärdig (German), widerspenstig (German), renitent (German), widerborstig (German), hałaśliwy (Polish), niesforny (Polish), zaczepny (Polish), recalcitrante (Portuguese), estrepitoso (Spanish), oregerlig (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: obstreperously, obstreperousness, stroppy
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "October 1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:",
          "text": "[W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “A Sandshore Wooing”, in Short Stories: 1902-1903:",
          "text": "My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Stewart Edward White, “chapter 70”, in The Gray Dawn:",
          "text": "They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, 3 min from the start, in Penny Dreadful, season 2, episode 9:",
          "text": "This is what your boyfriend did, honey. When he was in one of his more obstreperous moods.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 22, Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "He said he loved making movies like Luca Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash,” in which his charismatic, obstreperous character, Harry Hawkes, a music producer described by the Italian director as “a pagan fawn,” does a Dionysian dance to the Rolling Stones song “Emotional Rescue.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defiant",
          "defiant"
        ],
        [
          "disobedient",
          "disobedient"
        ],
        [
          "resistant",
          "resistant"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ],
        [
          "control",
          "control"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "recalcitrant"
        },
        {
          "word": "uncooperative"
        },
        {
          "word": "unruly"
        },
        {
          "word": "obstinate"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əbˈstɹɛp.əɹ.əs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɒbˈstɹɛp.əɹ.əs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əbˈstɹɛpəɹəs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɑːbˈstɹɛpəɹəs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "صاخب"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "šumen",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "шумен"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "luidruchtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "rettelöivä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "meluisa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "ungestüm"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "tumultartig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "dröhnend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "polternd"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "polterhaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "hałaśliwy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "word": "espalhafatoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "halaslyvyj",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "галасливий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "šumnyj",
      "sense": "attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "шумний"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "mušākis",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مُشَاكِس"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "buen",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "буен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neobuzdan",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "необуздан"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "weerbarstig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "uhmakas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "kuriton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "niskoitteleva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "récalcitrant"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "aufsässig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "aufmüpfig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "ungebärdig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "widerspenstig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "renitent"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "widerborstig"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "hałaśliwy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "niesforny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "zaczepny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "recalcitrante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "estrepitoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "stubbornly defiant",
      "word": "oregerlig"
    }
  ],
  "word": "obstreperous"
}

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