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]

English

Etymology

From un- + controllable.

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.

   She got the uncontrollable urge for some chocolate.

Derived terms

• uncontrollability
• uncontrollableness
• uncontrollably

Related terms

• control
• controllable

Translations

References

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