Choose rambunctious for lively scenes that are noisy, disorderly, or difficult to settle, not for anything merely interesting or energetic.
Choose rambunctious for lively scenes that are noisy, disorderly, or difficult to settle, not for anything merely interesting or energetic.
Quiet, formal, or merely interesting situations are not rambunctious unless they are also noisy and hard to control.
An American English word first recorded in the early 1800s, probably altered from rumbustious, an older word for boisterous or unruly behaviour.