rampageous

[ram-pey-juhs]

adjective

1. violent; unruly; boisterous.

Other Word Forms

• rampageously adverb
• rampageousness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of rampageous¹

First recorded in 1815–25; rampage + -ous

Example Sentences

"Curly's out, you know, and terribly big and rampageous!"

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Oh, do hark to those children's voices; what rampageous, excitable creatures they are.

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In their hearts were only the most prosaic thoughts of dainty little sandwiches and stuffed olives, with an undernote of healthy happiness and rampageous good spirits.

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In front of his desk sits a scale model of the animal that barged its way onstage during his rampageous 2007 production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros; next to it is a memento from Jerusalem.

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The proposal had an immediately mollifying effect on the rampageous visitor.

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Related Words

• agitated 
• fierce 
• intense 
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• vehement 
• violent