uncontrollable

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[ US /ˌənkənˈtɹoʊɫəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ʌnkəntɹˈə‍ʊləbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. incapable of being controlled
    the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly
  2. incapable of being controlled or managed
    uncontrollable children
    an uncorrectable habit
  3. impossible to repress or control
    an irrepressible chatterbox
    uncontrollable laughter
  4. difficult to solve or alleviate
    uncontrollable pain
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How To Use uncontrollable In A Sentence

  • I was suddenly overcome with an uncontrollable desire to hit him.
  • It focuses on short-term dislocations and uncontrollable cyclical changes, producing constant disappointment and encouraging inappropriate transactional responses. American Chronicle
  • She's a wild uncontrollable girl, but that new school should knock some sense into her.
  • Other reports have cited severe and uncontrollable pain or bleeding, major injury with shock, impending birth, and uncontrollable mental disturbance.
  • If obsession is about repetition and patterns of behaviour and often a means of gaining control in uncontrollable situations then the order that Jude aches to find in her life is being cleverly reflected visually in the unusual use and placing of words on the page. In Search of Adam
  • And as he watched her in confusion, Shelley's chuckle turned into an uncontrollable, hysterical fit of laughter.
  • The ruse worked despite his almost uncontrollable trembling. Times, Sunday Times
  • This appearance of irrational and uncontrollable behaviour would so scare the other driver that he would be the first to pull away. Warfare in the Twentieth Century
  • Shaking with uncontrollable fury, she stood up to confront him.
  • That's a radical notion to many scientists who have long thought of aging as an uncontrollable process of deterioration that isn't regulated by single genes.
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