unmanageable
adjective
un·man·age·able
ˌən-ˈma-ni-jə-bəl 
: not manageable : difficult or impossible to control or manage
unmanageable hair
an almost unmanageable amount of data
The prisoner became unmanageable.
an unmanageable temper
an unmanageable number of students for one teacher
an unmanageable amount of debt
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Examples of unmanageable in a Sentence
an unmanageable dog who had to be returned to the pound
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As Verona undergoes a tourism boom, crowds in the courtyard have become so unmanageable that city authorities have stopped free entry over the festive period.
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Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 13 Dec. 2025
Audiences are distracted, costs are unmanageable and automation is coming; soon, everybody who ever wrote a piece of fan fiction will be able to make a film with the push of an LLM button (as Disney just accelerated).
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025
Approval and rates depend on your creditworthiness, though, so this option works best before your debt becomes unmanageable.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
Scientists have debated how much unnatural warming — built up in greenhouse gases released by burning fossil fuels — is likely to tip us into disastrously unmanageable weather systems.
—Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 1 Dec. 2025
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Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 13 Dec. 2025
Audiences are distracted, costs are unmanageable and automation is coming; soon, everybody who ever wrote a piece of fan fiction will be able to make a film with the push of an LLM button (as Disney just accelerated).
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025
Approval and rates depend on your creditworthiness, though, so this option works best before your debt becomes unmanageable.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
Scientists have debated how much unnatural warming — built up in greenhouse gases released by burning fossil fuels — is likely to tip us into disastrously unmanageable weather systems.
—Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 1 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unmanageable
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“Unmanageable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmanageable. Accessed 15 Dec. 2025.
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