rowdy
Noisy and behaving in a rough, wild way.
rowdy in a sentence
- The rowdy fans banged drums and chanted until the referee covered his ears.
- Next door's party grew so rowdy with shouting and stamping that our windows rattled.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to rowdy?
- Aquiet
- Borderly
- Ccalm
- Dnoisy
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D: noisy. The other three mean the opposite of rowdy.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to rowdy?
- Anoisy
- Bwild
- Cloud
- Dquiet
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D: quiet. The other three mean nearly the same as rowdy.
Words that mean something similar
noisy, loud, wild
Words that mean the opposite
quiet, calm, orderly
Careful: rowdy is not boisterous
Boisterous is usually high spirits. Rowdy is when the noise has turned into trouble. Read why children mix them up.
More words about behaviour & manners
- sabotage: To damage or spoil something on purpose so it does not work.
- sacrifice: To give up something you value, to help someone or to gain something more important.
- sanitary: Clean, and helping to protect people's health.
- shun: To avoid someone or something on purpose.
- sneer: To smile in a nasty way that shows you look down on someone; or that nasty smile.
- spontaneous: Done suddenly without planning it first.
- squander: To waste money or time in a careless way.
- submissive: Always willing to obey others without arguing.
More words to explore
Sitting the 11+ in Kent, Medway or Buckinghamshire?
Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test