rowdiness

see definition of rowdiness

as inprank
as indisorderly conduct
as inroughhouse
as indisorderliness
as infractiousness
as inshenanigan
as infooling
as inhorseplay

Synonyms for rowdiness

noun practical joke; frivolity

Antonyms for rowdiness

disorderly conduct

noun. disturbance caused by a minor legal offense

fractiousness

noun. unruliness

horseplay

noun. rough play

prank

noun. practical joke; frivolity

Word Origin & History

"a rough, quarrelsome person," 1808, American English, originally "lawless backwoodsman," probably from row (n.2). The adjective is first recorded 1819. Related: Rowdily; rowdiness.

Example Sentences forrowdiness

Even in the relapse into rowdiness there is a sort of relapse into comfort.

Valletta is well policed; rowdiness does not obtrude itself upon the stranger.

He is averse to rowdiness or horse-play of any kind, and avoids giving offence.

Such establishments could not continue to exist if rowdiness and horseplay were permitted without protest.

There was no flaunting vice, no rowdiness, no drunkenness, only the squalor of an Oriental city without its quaintness and colour.

It does not come in their way to go forth and exhibit their rowdiness among strangers.

At times there were manifestations of rowdiness, but they were speedily and readily quelled.