形容词

1. （尤指孩子）没教养的，难控制的，难管束的
If you describe people, especially children, as unruly, you mean that they behave badly and are difficult to control.

2. （头发）凌乱的，不整洁的
Unruly hair is difficult to keep tidy.

1. of persons

e.g. the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly

Synonym: indocileuncontrollableungovernable

2. noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

e.g. 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

Synonym: boisterousrambunctiousrobustiousrumbustious

3. unwilling to submit to authority

e.g. unruly teenagers

Synonym: disobedient