'Uncontrollable' definitions:
Definition of 'uncontrollable'
From: WordNet
adjective
Difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain" [syn: uncontrollable, unmanageable]
adjective
Of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly]
adjective
Incapable of being controlled or managed; "uncontrollable children"; "an uncorrectable habit" [syn: uncontrollable, uncorrectable, unmanageable]
adjective
Impossible to repress or control; "an irrepressible chatterbox"; "uncontrollable laughter" [syn: irrepressible, uncontrollable]
Definition of 'Uncontrollable'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster] -- {Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness}, n. -- {Un`con*trol"la*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'uncontrollable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- amok,
- bacchic,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- beyond control,
- breachy,
- carried away,
- certain,
- contumacious,
- corybantic,
- defiant,
- delirious,
- demoniac,
- desperate,
- Dionysiac,
- 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