UNDOCILE Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

undocile

adjective

Definition of undocile

as in uncontrolled

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Adjective

The Carlisle airport is uncontrolled airport, meaning there is no air traffic control tower or controllers on site.

— Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
According to a news release, the project reduces the risk of an uncontrolled channel change caused by decades of erosion near the confluence of the Arkansas and White rivers.

— Sydney Sasser, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of uncontrolled

Adjective

In addition, the board members raised concerns about a recent memo highlighting turnover within the coroner’s office, low morale and a claim that Lukas brought her untrained dog into the office.

— Alicia Fabbre, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
That is why companies are moving to special pens to make injecting prescription GLP-1s and insulin less complex for untrained people.

— C. Michael White, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of untrained

Adjective

The site also provides unbroken views to Es Vedrà, the white mountain rock on the southern tip of Ibiza, the island's glamorous neighbor.

— Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2026
Shams – pregnant, isolated, yet unbroken – carries the weight of all this, and the fragile possibility of something new.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of unbroken

Adjective

The savage battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa had already demonstrated the ferocity with which Japanese forces would defend their homeland.

— James M. Scott, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
The lifestyle mogul made a savage comment about Meghan Markle in a cover story for PEOPLE on Wednesday, calling out her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of savage

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But the last of these wins came in 1969, when a privately entered—and at that point outdated—GT40 managed to beat Porsche’s still-untamed 917 on the German car’s debut.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2026
Many have traveled for the horses that live at Nihi Sumba—the ultra-luxurious hotel settled at the shoreline on this wildly untamed Indonesian island—but never in this particular way.

— Charley Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of untamed

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