UNDOCILE Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

undocile

adjective

Definition of undocile

as in uncontrolled

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Adjective

Crews responded to a large, uncontrolled wildfire sparked by the crash, and evacuations were in place, Coleman said.

— Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Tribbles are a metaphor for uncontrolled activities of humanity.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of uncontrolled

Adjective

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
The untrained artist began drawing only in her seventies, but her still lifes, often made after dark with humble materials like everyday markers and ballpoint pen, bristle with energy.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of untrained

Adjective

Shams – pregnant, isolated, yet unbroken – carries the weight of all this, and the fragile possibility of something new.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026
The length of the continent’s interior, unbroken by mountains or oceans, allows the monarchs to find the right weather and plants throughout the year—a Goldilocks ecology, neither too hot nor too cold.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 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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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
And yet, Simon Farnaby is perhaps most recognizable for mugging his rather expressive and jovial face, usually beneath a crop of untamed curly hair, across a series of scene-stealing comic cameos.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of untamed

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