incontrollable

[ in-kuhn-troh-luh-buhl ]

adjective

1. uncontrollable ( def ).

incontrollable

/ ˌɪnkənˈtrəʊləbəl /

adjective

1. a less common word for uncontrollable

Derived Forms

• ˌinconˈtrollably, adverb

Other Words From

• incon·trolla·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of incontrollable¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; in- ³ + controllable ( def )

Example Sentences

Trump calls it “a really bad situation” there and says that “if we find that it’s incontrollable,” then “we will close entry into the country for period of time until we can get it under control. The whole border.”

From Washington Times

Incontrollable tears trickled down his old face.

From Literature

For records of travel he craved with an incontrollable passion: a feeling which was, in reality, but a revivification of the ardour awakened in his boyish mind by the adventures of the shipwrecked Crusoe.

From Project Gutenberg

He felt he had driven her from him for ever, and in the midst of his dismal triumph, the greatest he had won, there came an almost incontrollable impulse to curse the Church, to curse religion itself, for exacting such savage cruelty from mortal man.

From Project Gutenberg

Another observable fact is, that these animals are generally as opposite in tempers as they are in appearance, so that while one is wishful of going to the east, the other has an incontrollable desire of proceeding in the opposite direction.

From Project Gutenberg