資料來源 : pyDict
難控制的,無法無天的,任性的
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Unruly \Un*rul"y\, a. [Compar. {Unrulier}, superl. {Unruliest}.]
[Pref. un- not + rule. Cf. {Ruly}.]
Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to
violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly
boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison. --James iii.
8.
資料來源 : WordNet®
unruly
adj 1: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous
crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious
and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers";
"beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is
sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human
beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: {boisterous}, {rambunctious},
{robustious}, {rumbustious}]
2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: {disobedient}]
3: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: {indocile}, {uncontrollable},
{ungovernable}]
[also: {unruliest}, {unrulier}]