adjective
- Difficult to solve or alleviate.
- usage: "uncontrollable pain"
- synonyms: unmanageable
- Of persons.
- usage: "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"
- synonyms: indocile, ungovernable, unruly
- Incapable of being controlled or managed.
- usage: "uncontrollable children"; "an uncorrectable habit"
- synonyms: uncorrectable, unmanageable
- Impossible to repress or control.
- usage: "an irrepressible chatterbox"; "uncontrollable laughter"
- synonyms: irrepressible
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