Rumbustious and Somber

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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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Somber is an antonym for rumbustious.

Somber adjective - Being without light or without much light.

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Rumbustious is an antonym for somber.

Nearby Words: sombre, somberly

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