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| Main Entry: |
out of control
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | behaving unreasonably |
| Synonyms: | carried away, disorderly, out of hand, rebellious, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wild |
| Main Entry: | frantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressed, distracted |
| Synonyms: | agitated, angry, at wits' end, berserk, beside oneself, corybantic, crazy, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, flipped out, fraught, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hot and bothered, hot under the collar, hyper, in a stew, in a tizzy, insane, keyed up, mad, out of control, overwrought, rabid, raging, raving, shook up, spazzed out, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, violent, weird, weirded out, wigged out, wild, wired, worked up, zonkers |
| Notes: | frantic (from Latin phrenecticus 'frenetic') pertains to a mental state or condition, to a frame of mind, whereas that of frenetic pertains rather to a type of behavior or conduct |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, composed, docile, peaceful, tranquil |
| Main Entry: | loose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | promiscuous |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, capricious, careless, corrupt, debauched, disreputable, dissipated, dissolute, easy, fast, heedless, high living, immoral, imprudent, inconstant, lax, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, negligent, out of control, playing, profligate, rash, reckless, speeding, swinging, thoughtless, unchaste, unmindful, unrestrained, wanton |
| Notes: | loose means not restrained, fastened, confined or attached, while lose means fail to keep or to maintain or fail to win |
| Antonyms: | clean, decent, moral |
| Main Entry: | rampant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled, out of hand |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, blustering, boisterous, clamorous, dominant, epidemic, exceeding bounds, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fanatical, flagrant, furious, growing, impetuous, impulsive, luxuriant, on the rampage, out of control, outrageous, pandemic, predominant, prevalent, profuse, raging, rampaging, rank, rife, riotous, spreading, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruly, vehement, violent, wanton, widespread, wild |
| Antonyms: | checked, controlled, limited, restrained |
| Main Entry: | riotous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chaotic, wild |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, deranged, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, helter-skelter, insurrectionary, lawless, mutinous, out of control, rampageous, rebellious, rowdy, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, uncontrolled, unruly, violent |
| 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, out of line, perverse, quarrelsome, rash, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, restive, riotous, rowdy, turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unyielding, violent, wayward, wild, willful |
| Antonyms: | compliant, obedient, yielding |
| Main Entry: | indocile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unruly |
| Synonyms: | assertive, bawdy, disorderly, drunken, forward, fractious, headstrong, heedless, impervious, impetuous, imprudent, impulsive, incorrigible, inexorable, insubordinate, intemperate, intractable, lawless, mean, mutinous, obstinate, obstreperous, opinionated, ornery*, out of control, out of line, perverse, quarrelsome, rash, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, restive, riotous, rowdy, turbulent, uncontrollable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, untoward, unyielding, violent, wayward, wild, willful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | madding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frantic |
| Synonyms: | agitated, angry, at wits' end, berserk, beside oneself, corybantic, crazy*, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, flipped out, fraught, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hot and bothered, hot under the collar, hyper*, hysterical, in a stew, in a tizzy, insane, keyed up, mad, out of control, overwrought, panic-stricken, rabid, raging, raving, shook up, spazzed out, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, violent, weird*, weirded out, wigged out, wild, wired, worked up, zonkers |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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