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Princeton's WordNet

  1. uncontrollable, unmanageableadjective

    difficult to solve or alleviate

    "uncontrollable pain"

  2. indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrulyadjective

    of persons

    "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"

  3. uncontrollable, uncorrectable, unmanageableadjective

    incapable of being controlled or managed

    "uncontrollable children"; "an uncorrectable habit"

  4. irrepressible, uncontrollableadjective

    impossible to repress or control

    "an irrepressible chatterbox"; "uncontrollable laughter"

Wiktionary

  1. uncontrollableadjective

    Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.

    She got the uncontrollable urge for some chocolate.

  2. Etymology: From un- + controllable.

Wikipedia

  1. Uncontrollable

    "Uncontrollable" is a song by British YouTuber and rapper KSI. The song features a guest appearance from British rapper Big Zuu. It was independently released for digital download and streaming on 2 February 2018 in the build up to KSI's impending amateur boxing match against British YouTuber Joe Weller. The song was used as KSI's entrance music for the boxing match, held on 3 February 2018 at the Copper Box Arena in London, which KSI went on to win via technical knockout in the third round. The music video was released on 31 January 2018. The black and white video places the two rappers in the gritty underground scene of the boxing world.

ChatGPT

  1. uncontrollable

    Uncontrollable refers to anything that cannot be managed, directed, restricted, or restrained. It often relates to situations, events, forces, emotions, or behaviors that are impossible to govern, manipulate, or regulate. This could include natural disasters, overwhelming emotions, or rapid technological changes, among other things.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Uncontrollableadjective

    incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events

  2. Uncontrollableadjective

    indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Uncontrollable

    un-kon-trō′la-bl, adj. not capable of being controlled: indisputable.—n. Uncontroll′ableness.—adv. Uncontroll′ably.—adj. Uncontrolled′.—adv. Uncontroll′edly.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of uncontrollable in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of uncontrollable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of uncontrollable in a Sentence

  1. Winston Churchill:

    Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  2. Boris Johnson:

    It is thanks to that massive collective effort to shield the NHS that we avoided an uncontrollable and catastrophic epidemic.

  3. Abraham Harold Maslow:

    Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes

  4. Santiago Dondo:

    In a sector like mining which needs so much investment, so much capital, all the economic distortions like currency controls and uncontrollable inflation have a very strong and negative impact.

  5. Steve Maraboli:

    We can all fight the battles of just one day. It is when we add the burdens of two uncontrollable days, yesterday and tomorrow, that we get overwhelmed.

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