UNDOCILE Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

undocile

adjective

Definition of undocile

as in uncontrolled

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Adjective

The spacecraft started tumbling uncontrolled after launch, forcing NASA to abandon the mission.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 26 Aug. 2026
This uncontrolled melting widens the cavern and dangerously thins the structural salt pillars separating adjacent domes.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 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

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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

Cole, who has to maneuver his way around 20 savage crew members, each of whom will need to be killed, doesn’t waste a homicidal movement.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of savage

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Wuthering Heights In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte presents a world of conflicts, frictions between families, passions, and attachments—especially those of Catherine Earnshaw and the tortured Heathcliff—across an untamed landscape.

— Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
But the preseason remains relatively unclaimed, and therefore untamed, territory.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of untamed

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