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Synonyms & Antonyms of ruckus
1
a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people
- the ruckus left one person with a sprained wrist
Synonyms for ruckus
- affray
- [chiefly British],
- brawl,
- broil,
- donnybrook,
- fracas,
- fray,
- free-for-all,
- melee
- (also mêlée),
- rough-and-tumble,
- row,
- ruction
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2
a state of noisy, confused activity
- quit creating such a ruckus—I'm trying to sleep!
Synonyms for ruckus
- ado,
- alarums and excursions,
- ballyhoo,
- blather,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- bother,
- bustle,
- clatter,
- clutter
- [chiefly dialect],
- coil,
- commotion,
- corroboree
- [Australian],
- disturbance,
- do
- [chiefly dialect],
- foofaraw,
- fun,
- furor,
- furore,
- fuss,
- helter-skelter,
- hoo-ha
- (also hoo-hah),
- hoopla,
- hubble-bubble,
- hubbub,
- hullabaloo,
- hurly,
- hurly-burly,
- hurricane,
- hurry,
- hurry-scurry
- (or hurry-skurry),
- kerfuffle
- [chiefly British],
- moil,
- pandemonium,
- pother,
- row,
- ruction,
- rumpus,
- shindy,
- splore
- [Scottish],
- squall,
- stew,
- stir,
- storm,
- to-do,
- tumult,
- turmoil,
- uproar,
- welter,
- whirl,
- williwaw,
- zoo
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Near Antonyms for ruckus
- calm,
- hush,
- peace,
- quiet,
- quietude,
- rest,
- stillness,
- tranquillity
- (or tranquility)
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The first known use of ruckus was in 1885
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