Entry Word: uncontrollable

Function: adjective

Meaning: given to resisting control or discipline by others <the uncontrollable child kept throwing tantrums in public and creating scenes>

Synonyms froward, headstrong, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)

Related Words contrary, incorrigible, obstinate, perverse, self-willed, stubborn; undisciplined, unpunished; uncontrolled, ungoverned, wild; boisterous, rambunctious, rowdy; disobedient, insubordinate, rebellious; misbehaving, naughty

Phrases out of hand

Near Antonyms docile, obedient, well-behaved; compliant, submissive, yielding

Antonyms controllable, governable, tractable