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boistrous

boistrous is the obsolete form of boisterous.

Meaning of boisterous

Adjective

boisterous (comparative more boisterous, superlative most boisterous)

  1. Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
    • Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out.1959 February, “Letters to the Editor: Open-Type Coaches on B.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 135
  2. Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.
    • ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe,
      Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
  3. Having or resembling animalic exuberance.

Forms of boistrous

comparativemore boistrous
superlativemost boistrous

Questions about boistrous

What is boistrous the obsolete form of?
Boistrous is the obsolete form of boisterous.

Words near boistrous in the dictionary

  1. boisterous
  2. boisterously
  3. boisterousness
  4. boistous
  5. boistroside
  6. boistrous
  7. Boisvert
  8. Boisverts
  9. Boitano
  10. boitjie
  11. boitjies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boistrous (page history and authors); boisterous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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