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Uncontrollable definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNCONTROLLABLE, a.
1. That cannot be controlled; ungovernable; that cannot be restrained; as an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable subjects.
2. That cannot be resisted or diverted; as uncontrollable events.
3. Indisputable; irrefragable; as an uncontrollable maxim; the king's uncontrollable title to the English throne.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain" [syn: uncontrollable, unmanageable]
2: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly]
3: incapable of being controlled or managed; "uncontrollable children"; "an uncorrectable habit" [syn: uncontrollable, uncorrectable, unmanageable]
4: impossible to repress or control; "an irrepressible chatterbox"; "uncontrollable laughter" [syn: irrepressible, uncontrollable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1593 1. archaic free from control by a superior power ; absolute 2. incapable of being controlled ; ungovernable <a rush of uncontrollable emotions> • uncontrollability noun • uncontrollably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. not controllable. Derivatives: uncontrollableness n. uncontrollably adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Uncontrollable Un`con*trol"la*ble, a. 1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. [R.] --Swift. -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*trol"la*bly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe a feeling or physical action as uncontrollable, you mean that you cannot control it or prevent yourself from feeling or doing it. It had been a time of almost uncontrollable excitement... He burst into uncontrollable laughter at something I'd said. ADJ: usu ADJ n • uncontrollably I started shaking uncontrollably and began to cry. ADV: usu ADV after v 2. If you describe a person as uncontrollable, you mean that their behaviour is bad and that nobody can make them behave more sensibly. Mark was withdrawn and uncontrollable... Uncontrollable children grow into young criminals. ADJ 3. If you describe a situation or series of events as uncontrollable, you believe that nothing can be done to control them or to prevent things from getting worse. If political and ethnic problems are not resolved the situation could become uncontrollable. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Ungovernable, irrepressible, rampant, headstrong, violent, unruly, unmanageable.

Moby Thesaurus

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