Uncontrollable \Un`con*trol"la*ble\, a.
1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible;
as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.
[1913 Webster]
2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim;
an uncontrollable title. [R.] --Swift.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
uncontrollable
adj 1: difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain" [syn:
unmanageable]
2: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile, ungovernable,
unruly]
3: not susceptible of improvement; "uncontrollable children";
"an uncorrectable habit" [syn: uncorrectable, unmanageable]
4: impossible to repress or control; "an irrepressible
chatterbox"; "uncontrollable laughter" [syn: irrepressible]
WordNet (r) 2.0
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncontrollable":
Dionysiac, abandoned, amok, bacchic, bellowing, berserk,
beyond control, breachy, carried away, certain, contumacious,
corybantic, defiant, delirious, demoniac, desperate, distracted,
ecstatic, enraptured, fated, fateful, feral, ferocious, fierce,
fractious, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, furious,
haggard, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport,
in hysterics, incorrigible, indefeasible, indocile, indomitable,
ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable,
inflexible, insuppressible, intoxicated, intractable,
irrepressible, irresistible, irrevocable, like one possessed, mad,
madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, necessary, obstreperous,
orgasmic, orgiastic, out of hand, possessed, rabid, raging,
ramping, ranting, raving, raving mad, ravished, recalcitrant,
refractory, relentless, resistant, resisting, resistless, restive,
roaring, running mad, running wild, shrewish, stark-raving mad,
storming, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, transported,
unavoidable, unbiddable, undeflectable, undisciplined,
ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unpreventable,
unruly, unstoppable, unsubmissive, unyielding, violent, wild,
wild-eyed, wild-looking
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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