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uncontrollable - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | uncontrollable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wild; carried away |
| Synonyms: | beside oneself, disorderly, excited, fractious, frantic, furious, headstrong, indomitable, insurgent, intractable, irrepressible, irresistible, lawless, mad, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, strong, stubborn, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, violent, freaked, indocile, insuppressible, like a loose cannon, uncontainable, undisciplinable, unrestrainable |
| Antonyms: | manageable, mild, moderate, controllable, controlled |
| Main Entry: | compulsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | driving, obsessive |
| Synonyms: | compelling, enthusiastic, irresistible, overwhelming, passionate, uncontrollable, urgent, besetting |
| Notes: | a compulsive eater is compelled by an exterior force to eat and eats constantly; an impulsive eater is impelled (has an impulse) to eat, occurring sporadically, and eats only from time to time |
| Antonyms: | free, independent, controlled, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | volatile, dangerous |
| Synonyms: | bursting, charged, consequential, ebullient, fiery, forceful, frenzied, hazardous, impetuous, meteoric, overwrought, perilous, raging, rampant, stormy, tense, touchy, ugly, uncontrollable, unstable, vehement, violent, wild, at the boiling point, convulsive, detonating, detonative, eruptive, fulminant, fulminating |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful, safe |
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, cruel, cutthroat*, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, frightening, furious, horrible, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild, brutish, flipped, howling, tigerish |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | headstrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | bullheaded*, contrary, determined, foolhardy, froward, hard-core*, hard-nosed, heedless, imprudent, impulsive, intractable, mulish, murder, obstinate, perverse, pig-headed*, rash, reckless, refractory, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, unyielding, willful, hard-shell, locked-in, mule, self-willed, strong-minded |
| Antonyms: | calm, docile, moderate, obedient, submissive, tolerant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hyperactive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessively active |
| Synonyms: | excitable, high-strung, uncontrollable, wild, hyper, overactive, overzealous |
| Main Entry: | hysterical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, excited |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, fiery, frantic, frenzied, furious, impassioned, impetuous, incensed, irrepressible, mad, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, carried away, convulsive, fuming, in a fit, maddened, seething, unnerved, worked up |
| Antonyms: | calm, serene, controlled |
| Main Entry: | incontinent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking control |
| Synonyms: | unchecked, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, ungovernable, unsuppressed |
| Antonyms: | continent, restrained |
| Main Entry: | irrepressible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effervescent, vivacious |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, bubbling, buoyant, ebullient, enthusiastic, rebellious, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unrestrained, unruly, insuppressible, rhapsodical, unconstrained, uncontainable, unquenchable, unrestrainable, unstoppable |
| Antonyms: | depressed, despondent, grave, hopeless, serious |
| Main Entry: | jerky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled |
| Synonyms: | bumpy, fitful, jarring, rough, shaking, shaky, spasmodic, tremulous, uncontrollable, bouncy, convulsive, jolting, lurching, paroxysmal, twitching, twitchy |
| Antonyms: | fluid, smooth |
| Main Entry: | licentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, uncontrolled |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, animal, carnal, corrupt, debauched, depraved, desirous, disorderly, dissolute, fast, fast and loose, fleshly, impure, incontinent, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, loose*, lustful, profligate, promiscuous, reprobate, salacious, scabrous, sensual, swinging, uncontrollable, unprincipled, unruly, wanton, amoral, in the fast lane, lickerish, lubricious, oversexed, relaxed, satyric, unconstrained, uncurbed, unmoral |
| Antonyms: | chaste, good, innocent, moral, controlled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rampant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled, out of hand |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, boisterous, clamorous, dominant, epidemic, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fanatical, flagrant, furious, growing, impetuous, impulsive, luxuriant, out of control, outrageous, predominant, prevalent, profuse, raging, rank, rife, riotous, spreading, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruly, vehement, violent, wanton, widespread, wild, blustering, exceeding bounds, on the rampage, pandemic, rampaging |
| Antonyms: | limited, restrained, checked, controlled |
| Main Entry: | unmanageable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unruly, wild |
| Synonyms: | awkward, berserk, chaotic, crazy, disobedient, disorderly, hysterical, lawless, madcap, nuts, out of control, outrageous, riotous, rowdy, turbulent, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undisciplined, ungovernable, unrestrained, violent |
| Main Entry: | unruly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient |
| Synonyms: | assertive, bawdy, disorderly, drunken, forward, fractious, headstrong, heedless, impervious, impetuous, imprudent, impulsive, incorrigible, inexorable, insubordinate, intemperate, intractable, lawless, mean, mutinous, obstreperous, opinionated, ornery, out of control, perverse, quarrelsome, rash, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, restive, riotous, rowdy, turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unyielding, violent, wayward, wild, willful, out of line |
| Antonyms: | compliant, obedient, yielding |
| Main Entry: | untamed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wild |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, feral, ferocious, fierce, native, overgrown, overrun, rampant, savage, uncivilized, uncontrollable, uncultivated, uninhabited, unmanageable, vicious, undomesticated |
| Main Entry: | unwieldy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward, bulky |
| Synonyms: | burdensome, clumsy, cumbersome, gross, hefty, inconvenient, lumbering, massive, onerous, ponderous, uncontrollable, ungainly, unmanageable, weighty, cumbrous, encumbering, unhandy |
| Antonyms: | convenient, handy |
| Main Entry: | out of control |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | behaving unreasonably |
| Synonyms: | disorderly, rebellious, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wild, carried away, out of hand |
| Main Entry: | overpowering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very strong |
| Synonyms: | intense, irresistible, overwhelming, powerful, uncontrollable |
| Main Entry: | ungovernable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out of control |
| Synonyms: | disobedient, uncontrollable, undisciplined, unmanageable, unruly, wild, indocile |
| Antonyms: | manageable, controllable, rulable |
| Main Entry: | unregulated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deregulated |
| Synonyms: | unchecked, uncontrollable, uncontrolled |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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