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incontrollable en · ADJ

Etymology

From in- + controllable.

Meanings

1. (archaic) uncontrollable
   • Terror claimed him--the terror which he had with difficulty been fending off throughout that nightmare interview with Fo-Hi. Madness threatened him, and he was seized by an almost incontrollable desire to shout execrations--prayers--he knew not what. 1920, Sax Rohmer, The Golden Scorpion:
   • They had tasked our improved capacity for bearing annoyances ever since we first set foot in Sicily; but here they are perfectly incontrollable, stinging and buzzing at us without mercy or truce, not to be driven off for a second, nor persuaded to drown themselves on any consideration. 1844, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI.:
   • Set upon his will as the one law of Nature; storming forward with incontrollable violence: a very whirlwind of a man. 1728, Thomas Carlyle, History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.):

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