uncontrollable

Main Entry:
uncontrollable [uhn-kuhn-troh-luh-buhl]
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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