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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uncontrollable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blind/uncontrollable rage (=extreme uncontrolled anger that makes someone violent)
▪ He lashed out in a blind rage.
an irresistible/uncontrollable/overwhelming urge (=very strong)
▪ I was overcome by an irresistible urge to laugh.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At the mention of Hannah's name, he flew into an uncontrollable rage.
▪ Barbara was shaking with uncontrollable laughter.
▪ We could hear her uncontrollable weeping down the hall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All will suffer from debilitating and uncontrollable movements and severe personality and cognitive changes.
▪ But these choices are not seen as being so individually idiosyncratic as to make crime totally unpredictable or uncontrollable.
▪ In an instant there was an uncontrollable flood in his loins, an unstoppable surge.
▪ It is only rapid movements up that become uncontrollable.
▪ Mostly she lay silent, noncommittal and unemotional, until one day she broke into uncontrollable weeping.
▪ Not all the stories about Nicu's uncontrollable and violent lusts were true.
▪ Sometimes I felt a mindless, uncontrollable rage, a consumption that ran through my chest to my hands.
▪ There had been moments during the past night when his fear had become almost uncontrollable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uncontrollable

Uncontrollable \Un`con*trol"la*ble\, a.

  1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.

  2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. [R.]
    --Swift. [1913 Webster] -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*trol"la*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uncontrollable

1570s, "irrefutable," from un- (1) "not" + controllable. From 1590s as "not subject to authority;" meaning "that cannot be restrained" is from 1640s. Related: Uncontrollably.

Wiktionary
uncontrollable

a. Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.

WordNet
uncontrollable
  1. adj. difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain" [syn: unmanageable]

  2. of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile, ungovernable, unruly]

  3. not susceptible of improvement; "uncontrollable children"; "an uncorrectable habit" [syn: uncorrectable, unmanageable]

  4. impossible to repress or control; "an irrepressible chatterbox"; "uncontrollable laughter" [syn: irrepressible]

Usage examples of "uncontrollable".

Daniel, being a far less condescending teacher than Musikmeister Hummel, has succeeded in teaching me a great deal in a short while and I feel, in the making of this music, some of that uncontrollable excitement that afflicted me when I did my wild, splodged painting of my park.

American War Machine was but a gigantic, lumbering erection wedged into the tight pants of Democracy, stifled until the outburst of war prompts congressional rubbing and legislative foreplay and the uncontrollable spurting ejaculation of bombs and missles ensues as the nation COMES on the heads of a nation of Third World villagers.

She ran to Timka who was a shuddering amorphous lump, all the scattered bits had been resorbed but the Min was in Chorinya, being wrenched through uncontrollable shifts.

Uncontrollable panic took charge of my limbs and like a scalded cat I threw myself against the stone door.

Scientific thinking is powerless in the domain of Life, for its happenings are uncontrollable, irreversible, never-recurring, unique, cannot be classified, are unamenable to rational treatment, and possessed of no external, mechanical necessity.

It was not fear of punishment, but of the talk itself, of something uncontrollable, the small random thing unplanned for in the tight fabric of prison life, flowering in the unregimented moment, in a free exchange of eyes, in the whispers passed in the washroom.

Often and again have I seen them roll upon the ground in mad fits of uncontrollable mirth when witnessing the death agonies of women and little children beneath the torture of that hellish green Martian fete--the Great Games.

But if in these festival hours under the beam of Hecate they are uncontrollable by the Comic Muse, she will not flatter them with her presence during the course of their insane and impious hilarities, whereof a description would out-Brocken Brockens and make Graymalkin and Paddock too intimately our familiars.

That intervention and occupation forces should not rely on collaborationist domestic minorities to maintain control responded to the awareness from the Balkan experience that such alliances are volatile, and may trigger uncontrollable interethnic conflict antithetical to the objective of a trouble-free occupation.

I sit alone over there these nights hoping some impoverished youngster, unable to afford a trip home at intersession, will be moved by an uncontrollable itch for travel to come to my lab and earn his fare.

Lord Volchim and Ismene waltzed through the garden, uncontrollable grins on their faces as they spun each other to the faint music of the orchestra.

I use the term extra-physical to avoid any confusion with paraphysical, with such evidently existing but usually uncontrollable and elusive forces as telepathy, telekinesis, and other extrasensory perception phenomena.

The Most Noble the Marquis of Rotherham had succumbed to uncontrollable laughter.

But events, uncontrollable and whimsical in their very unrelatedness had conspired to make a tangled web of circumstances.

There was an agitation to re-annex the Philippines, and after the Japanese failure to hold Wuchang the drive towards open war became uncontrollable.