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incontrollable

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of incontrollable

given to resisting control or discipline by others

police have vowed to crack down on the speeding, racing, and other driving misdeeds being committed by the town's incontrollable teenagers

Synonyms of incontrollable

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

Words Related to incontrollable

bullheaded, contrary, difficult, hardheaded, incorrigible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stiff, stiff-necked, stubborn

undisciplined, unpunished

uncontrolled, wild

boisterous, irrepressible, rambunctious, rowdy

disobedient, indocile, insubordinate, rebellious

misbehaving, naughty

Phrases Synonymous with incontrollable

out of hand

Near Antonyms of incontrollable

docile, obedient, well-behaved

compliant, placable, pliable, submissive, yielding

accepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willing

reasonable, temperate, trainable

Antonyms of incontrollable

controllable, governable, manageable, tractable

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