{"word":"obstreperous","entries":[{"language":{"code":"en","name":"English"},"partOfSpeech":"adjective","pronunciations":[{"type":"ipa","text":"/əbˈstɹɛp.əɹ.əs/","tags":["Received Pronunciation"]},{"type":"ipa","text":"/ɒbˈstɹɛp.əɹ.əs/","tags":["Received Pronunciation"]},{"type":"ipa","text":"/əbˈstɹɛpəɹəs/","tags":["US"]},{"type":"ipa","text":"/ɑːbˈstɹɛpəɹəs/","tags":["US"]}],"forms":[{"word":"more obstreperous","tags":["comparative"]},{"word":"most obstreperous","tags":["superlative"]}],"senses":[{"definition":"Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.","tags":[],"examples":[],"quotes":[{"text":"[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.","reference":"1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], chapter VII, in A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:"},{"text":"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.","reference":"1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 277:"},{"text":"[…] my hope\nDwindled into a ghost not fit to cope\nWith that obstreperous joy success would bring","reference":"1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came:"},{"text":"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.","reference":"1918, Henry B[lake] Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part II, section III, page 57:"},{"text":"The train was soon filled to the brim with obstreperous American tourists brandishing Pina Coladas from the upper deck, and started to resemble a smallish dry-land cruise ship.","reference":"2026 March 18, Vitali Vitaliev, “Small is beautiful... Pt 3”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 68:"}],"synonyms":["clamorous","loud","noisy","vociferous"],"antonyms":[],"subsenses":[]},{"definition":"Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control (whether in a noisy manner or not).","tags":[],"examples":[],"quotes":[{"text":"[W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.","reference":"October 1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:"},{"text":"My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.","reference":"1903, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “A Sandshore Wooing”, in Short Stories: 1902-1903:"},{"text":"They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.","reference":"1915, Stewart Edward White, “chapter 70”, in The Gray Dawn:"},{"text":"Now [Judah] becomes their surrogate in being subject to a bizarre but peculiarly fitting principle of retaliation, taken in by a piece of attire, as his father was, learning through his own obstreperous flesh that the divinely appointed process of election cannot be thwarted by human will or social convention.","reference":"1981, Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible”, in The Art of Biblical Narrative, page 10:"},{"text":"This is what your boyfriend did, honey. When he was in one of his more obstreperous moods.","reference":"2015, 3 min from the start, in Penny Dreadful, season 2, episode 9:"},{"text":"He said he loved making movies like Luca Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash,” in which his charismatic, obstreperous character, Harry Hawkes, a music producer described by the Italian director as “a pagan fawn,” does a Dionysian dance to the Rolling Stones song “Emotional Rescue.”","reference":"2022 October 22, Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, in The New York Times:"}],"synonyms":["recalcitrant","uncooperative","unruly","adamant","ardent","grim","bent on","bloody-minded","bullheaded","certain","chronic","confirmed","determined","diehard","dogged","hard-hearted","hard-nosed","hardheaded","headstrong","immovable","incalcitrant","inflexible","irrefragable","insistent","intractable","intransigent","intrepid","inveterate","mulish","obdurate","obstinate","obstreperous","peevish","peremptory","persistent","pertinacious","pigheaded","recalcitrant","refractory","resolute","resolved","rigid","self-willed","stalwart","staunch","steadfast","steady","stubborn","stubborn as a mule","sullen","tenacious","terminal","thran","thwart","tough","truculent","unbending","uncompromising","unyielding","vehement","wilful","willful"],"antonyms":[],"subsenses":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"source":{"url":"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obstreperous","license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"}}}