Ruly: alternatives and connections

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.

To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which somet…

Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.

Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the litera…

so similar as to be easily identified for another thing; "potentially confusable senses of words"; "easily mistakable signals"

Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse…

Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assembli…

Unruly; disorderly.

With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or w…

Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pres…

Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.

the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"

the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"