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Antonyms for rowdiness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : rou-dee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈraʊ di |
Definition of rowdiness
Origin :- "a rough, quarrelsome person," 1808, American English, originally "lawless backwoodsman," probably from row (n.2). The adjective is first recorded 1819. Related: Rowdily; rowdiness.
- As in prank : noun practical joke; frivolity
- As in disorderly conduct : noun disturbance caused by a minor legal offense
- As in roughhouse : noun roughness
- As in disorderliness : noun unruliness
- As in fractiousness : noun unruliness
- As in shenanigan : noun prank
- As in fooling : noun joking, tricks
- As in horseplay : noun rough play
- Even in the relapse into rowdiness there is a sort of relapse into comfort.
- Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
- Valletta is well policed; rowdiness does not obtrude itself upon the stranger.
- Extract from : « The Story of Malta » by Maturin M. Ballou
- He is averse to rowdiness or horse-play of any kind, and avoids giving offence.
- Extract from : « The Inhabitants of the Philippines » by Frederic H. Sawyer
- Such establishments could not continue to exist if rowdiness and horseplay were permitted without protest.
- Extract from : « The Daughters of a Genius » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- There was no flaunting vice, no rowdiness, no drunkenness, only the squalor of an Oriental city without its quaintness and colour.
- Extract from : « The Grandchildren of the Ghetto » by Israel Zangwill
- It does not come in their way to go forth and exhibit their rowdiness among strangers.
- Extract from : « Travelling Sketches. » by Anthony Trollope
- At times there were manifestations of rowdiness, but they were speedily and readily quelled.
- Extract from : « Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons » by Henry Charles Mahoney
Synonyms for rowdiness
- aggro
- antic
- antics
- bluffing
- breach of peace
- buffoonery
- caper
- capers
- caprice
- clowning
- clownishness
- disorder
- disorderliness
- disorderly behavior
- disruption
- disruptiveness
- disturbance of the peace
- escapade
- fancy
- farce
- fooling
- fooling around
- fractiousness
- frolic
- frolicking
- fun and games
- gag
- gambol
- high jinks
- hijinks
- hoodlumism
- hooliganism
- horseplay
- hotfoot
- intractability
- intractableness
- jesting
- joke
- joshing
- kidding
- lark
- levity
- lightness
- making light
- misbehavior
- mockery
- monkeyshines
- nonsense
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- play
- pranks
- pretense
- put-on
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- rib
- riotousness
- rollick
- rough-housing
- roughhouse
- roughhousing
- roughness
- rowdiness
- rowdyism
- ruffianism
- sham
- shenanigans
- shine
- skylarking
- spoof
- spoofing
- sport
- teasing
- tomfoolery
- trick
- trifling
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- unmanageableness
- whim
- wildness
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