Rumbustious and Silent

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Rumbustious adjective - Being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way.

Usage example: while American university debates tend to be sedate affairs, their counterparts in Oxford are wholeheartedly rumbustious

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Silent is an antonym for rumbustious.

Silent adjective - Deliberately refraining from speech.

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Rumbustious is an antonym for silent.

Nearby Words: silence, silently

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