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/ʌnmˈænɪdʒəbəl/
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[ US /ənˈmænɪdʒəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ənˈmænɪdʒəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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incapable of being controlled or managed
uncontrollable children
an uncorrectable habit -
hard to control
a difficult child
an unmanageable situation -
difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape
almost dropped the unwieldy parcel
we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter -
difficult to solve or alleviate
uncontrollable pain
How To Use unmanageable In A Sentence
- Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- It made running the house almost unmanageable. Times, Sunday Times
- When people contact us with unmanageable debt problems, it is rare for them to have just one payday loan. The Sun
- Step 1: Admit that your are powerless over your egos and past glories, that your lives have become unmanageable.
- With the invention of the credit card, unmanageable debt is as easy as a magnetic swipe and a signature. Christianity Today
- There was one great steer in particular, reckoned to be ten or twelve years old, quite a celebrity in fact on account of his unmanageableness, his independence and boldness, which we had frequently seen and tried to secure, but hitherto without success. Ranching, Sport and Travel
- Within that image he unified three unmanageable forces in his life - nature, the muse, and his mother.
- But they did so with such disregard for the logistics of the whole that it rapidly proved unmanageable.
- The revenge plot is intertwined with a romance between wagon train cutie Emily Hudson (a struggling Tamara Hope) and Jonathan (Trent Ford, not much better), the son of Samuelson who, in what may be the film’s only honest scene, tames an unmanageable horse. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
- I felt that weakness and unmanageableness of knee which comes with strong mental anguish, and I sank back impotent upon the baron, whose lingering legs repudiated the pressure, so that we both accumulated miserably upon Grandstone. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
