Uncontrollable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uncontrollable \Un`con*trol"la*ble\, a.
     1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible;
        as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.
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     2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim;


        an uncontrollable title. [R.] --Swift.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness}, n. --
        {Un`con*trol"la*bly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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