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English
Etymology
un- + controllable
Pronunciation
Adjective
uncontrollable (comparative more uncontrollable, superlative most uncontrollable)
- Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.
- She got the uncontrollable urge for some chocolate.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 273:"Ethel!" exclaimed Norbourne, his strong and uncontrollable emotion betraying the power that her name still had over him: he tried to say something more, but the words died on his lips.
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not able to be controlled, contained or governed
- Catalan: incontrolable
- Finnish: hillitön (fi), kontrolloimaton, pitelemätön, hallitsematon (fi)
- French: incontrôlable (fr)
- Galician: incontrolable (gl), incontrolábel (gl)
- Georgian: არაკონტროლირებადი (araḳonṭrolirebadi)
- German: unkontrollierbar (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἄσχετος (áskhetos), ἀκατάσχετος (akatáskhetos)
- Hungarian: (literally) irányíthatatlan (hu), befolyásolhatatlan (hu), (figuratively) csillapíthatatlan (hu), fékezhetetlen (hu), féktelen (hu)
- Italian: incontrollabile (it)
- Manx: neusmaghtee
- Romanian: incontrolabil, necontrolabil
- Russian: неуправля́емый (ru) (neupravljájemyj), неконтроли́руемый (ru) (nekontrolírujemyj)
- Spanish: incontrolable (es)
- Swedish: okontrollerbar (sv)
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References
- “uncontrollable”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “uncontrollable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.