[O]n a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw.
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Obstreperous
//əbˈstɹɛp.əɹ.əs//
Synonyms for "obstreperous" (162 found)
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Strong matches (48)
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Synonyms
2 entriesderived
5 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 11 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- صاخب adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
- مُشَاكِس adj (stubbornly defiant)
Bulgarian
3 entries- буен adj (stubbornly defiant)
- необуздан adj (stubbornly defiant)
- шумен adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
Dutch
2 entries- luidruchtig adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
- weerbarstig adj (stubbornly defiant)
Finnish
4 entries- kuriton adj (stubbornly defiant)
- meluisa adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
- niskoitteleva adj (stubbornly defiant)
- rettelöivä adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
French
1 entries- récalcitrant adj (stubbornly defiant)
German
4 entries- aufmüpfig adj (stubbornly defiant)
- aufsässig adj (stubbornly defiant)
- dröhnend adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
- polterhaft adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
Polish
4 entries- hałaśliwy adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
- hałaśliwy adj (stubbornly defiant)
- niesforny adj (stubbornly defiant)
- zaczepny adj (stubbornly defiant)
Portuguese
2 entries- espalhafatoso adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
- recalcitrante adj (stubbornly defiant)
Spanish
1 entries- estrepitoso adj (stubbornly defiant)
Swedish
1 entries- oregerlig adj (stubbornly defiant)
Ukrainian
2 entries- галасливий adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
- шумний adj (attended by, or making a loud and tumultuous noise)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
This disposition his subsequent life had not tended to change in any considerable degree, though increased knowledge, with much observation, and a little reading, had rendered the gaiety of the young man a very different thing to the obstreperous mirth of the boy.
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[…] my hope Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope With that obstreperous joy success would bring
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He developed an obstreperous baritone—it was the same voice, now more specifically in action, that I had first heard on the devastated prairie; and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not.
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