uncontainable

ADJECTIVE

irrepressible

Synonyms

STRONGEST

boisterous buoyant ebullient exuberant rebellious uncontrollable unrestrained unstoppable

WEAK

bubbling bubbly enthusiastic inextinguishable insuppressible rhapsodical unconstrained unmanageable unquenchable unrestrainable unruly

Antonyms

STRONGEST

controllable restrained

WEAK

depressed despondent grave

ADJECTIVE

uncontrollable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fractious intractable irresistible lawless undisciplined unmanageable unruly violent

WEAK

beside oneself disorderly excited frantic freaked furious headstrong indocile indomitable insuppressible insurgent irrepressible like a loose cannon mad obdurate obstinate recalcitrant strong stubborn undisciplinable ungovernable unrestrainable

Antonyms

WEAK

controllable controlled manageable mild moderate

Example Sentences

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If you knew nothing of Cheever’s work, you might sit up in your chair with surprise at that sentence—for its eruption of uncontainable joy expressed via an almost comically surreal image.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

He celebrated with a scream, joy and anger combining for uncontainable passion and an image that’ll define Doncic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

By June, it was so big that it was uncontainable.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2023

For his girls, the news that they would see their father again evoked pure, uncontainable joy, according to their former lawyer, Anilu Chadwick.

From BBC • May 8, 2023

I dropped my phone to the couch and tried to contain an uncontainable noise of glee.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

uncontainable

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