Synonyms and Antonyms of obstreperous
1
engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest
- an obstreperous crowd protesting the government's immigration policy
clangorous, dinning, discordant, noisy
loudmouthed, outspoken, vocal
boisterous, rackety, raucous, robustious, rowdy, uproarious
cacophonous, dissonant, earsplitting, grating, shrill, strident
blaring, blustering, booming, brassy, brazen
2
given to resisting authority or another's control
- the club's president was at his wits' end with obstreperous members who refused to cooperate
balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)
noncooperative, uncooperative
insurgent, mutinous
adamant, adamantine, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, negativistic, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding
fractious, restive, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild
perverse, resistant, wrongheaded
bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, monkeying, monkeyish, naughty
undisciplined
dissident, nonconformist
discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, ornery, rude, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly
acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, cooperative, deferential, obliging
yielding
behaved, disciplined, well-bred
courteous, polite, respectful
kowtowing, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient
decorous, mannerly, orderly, proper
controllable, governable, manageable, trainable
