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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wild; carried away |
| Synonyms: | beside oneself, disorderly, excited, fractious, frantic, freaked, furious, headstrong, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, insurgent, intractable, irrepressible, irresistible, lawless, like a loose cannon, mad, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, strong, stubborn, uncontainable, undisciplinable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrestrainable, unruly, violent |
| Antonyms: | controllable, controlled, manageable, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | disorderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing trouble; unlawful |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, disobedient, disruptive, drunk, fractious, indisciplined, intemperate, noisy, obstreperous, off-base, on-a-tear, out-of-line, out-of-order, raucous, rebellious, refractory, riotous, rowdy, stormy, termagant, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uncompliant, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wayward |
| Antonyms: | behaved, conforming, disciplined, manageable, orderly, well-behaved |
| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | volatile, dangerous |
| Synonyms: | at the boiling point, bursting, charged, consequential, convulsive, detonating, detonative, ebullient, eruptive, fiery, forceful, frenzied, fulminant, fulminating, hazardous, impetuous, meteoric, overwrought, perilous, raging, rampant, stormy, tense, touchy, ugly, uncontrollable, unstable, vehement, violent, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful, safe |
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, flipped, frightening, furious, horrible, howling, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, tigerish, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
| Main Entry: | headstrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | bullheaded, contrary, determined, foolhardy, froward, hard-core, hard-nosed, hard-shell, heedless, imprudent, impulsive, intractable, locked-in, mule, mulish, murder, obstinate, perverse, pig-headed, rash, reckless, refractory, self-willed, strong-minded, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, unyielding, willful |
| Antonyms: | calm, docile, moderate, obedient, submissive, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | hyperactive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessively active |
| Synonyms: | excitable, high-strung, hyper, overactive, overzealous, uncontrollable, wild |
| Main Entry: | hysterical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, excited |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, carried away, convulsive, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, fiery, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, impassioned, impetuous, in a fit, incensed, irrepressible, mad, maddened, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, seething, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unnerved, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, worked up |
| Antonyms: | calm, controlled, serene |
| Main Entry: | incontinent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking control |
| Synonyms: | unchecked, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, ungovernable, unsuppressed |
| Notes: | incompetent means not qualified or showing lack of skill or aptitude; incontinent means lacking control over urination and defecation |
| Antonyms: | continent, restrained |
| Main Entry: | irrepressible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effervescent, vivacious |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, bubbling, buoyant, ebullient, enthusiastic, insuppressible, rebellious, rhapsodical, tumultous/tumultuous, unconstrained, uncontainable, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unquenchable, unrestrainable, unrestrained, unruly, unstoppable |
| Antonyms: | depressed, despondent, grave, hopeless, serious |
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