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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unmanageable
adjective
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▪ Censors were having to deal with an unmanageable number of publications.
▪ Counselors are also available to help patients with ongoing issues that may have become unmanageable as a result of their illness.
▪ His behaviour was becoming unmanageable at home.
▪ If either is unmanageable it will create stress and lead to mistakes and delays.
▪ It is not viable to create agenda items which partners will find irrelevant or unmanageable.
▪ It would require testing of the entire population which is unnecessary, unmanageable and costly.
▪ Of course after that they were more insistent and unmanageable than ever.
▪ Recently resigned City Manager Michael Brown called them all but unmanageable.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmanageable

1630s, from un- (1) "not" + manageable (adj.). Related: Unmanageably; unmanageableness.

Wiktionary
unmanageable

a. Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed; not controllable.

WordNet
unmanageable

  1. adj. difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel" [syn: unwieldy] [ant: wieldy]

  2. difficult to manage or control [ant: manageable]

  3. difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain" [syn: uncontrollable]

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

Usage examples of "unmanageable".

Both handsome, wild, impetuous, unmanageable, they played and fought together like two young leopards, beautiful, but dangerous, their lawless instincts showing through all their graceful movements.

All that he fully understood was that this had been a perverse and unmanageable child, and that the extraordinary care which had been bestowed on her had been so far thrown away that she was a dangerous, self-willed girl, whom all feared and almost all shunned, as if she carried with her some malignant influence.

I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.

Fayth ran away some time ago and Wesley has been unmanageable for years.

Most of these kids grow up feeling utterly disregarded-by fathers who departed, by 378 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS mothers who are overwhelmed, by teachers with unmanageable classrooms, by a world in which they learn, from the TV set and the rap of the street, they do not count for much.

A flash crossed my mind, but I could gain nothing, even with my most dexterous wiles, from the little Dacre, who is a most unmanageable heroine.

It has made him most unmanageable, so that we must keep him sedated most of the time.

It tells of that vast unmanageable force, the physical power of the people, cast loose from all ancient moorings, and drifting into a sea of chaos.

He said that if I, as his guardian, swore Andy was an incorrigible, unmanageable boy, he would send him to the parental school at Byron till he was reformed.

Day dinner at my very vertical and wholly unmanageable townhouse in the wealthiest section of Philly?

Prima donnas and tenors are as unmanageable at Bayreuth as anywhere else.

The Aston, moving diagonally now and hopelessly unmanageable, slid out towards the edge.

It is hard enough these days keeping the cableway clear: the fixed lines of the slideway had been unmanageable.

He clasped a pink right hand inside a pink left hand and thrust them floorwards as though trying to cope with an almost unmanageable weight.

I think the motorman simply found the hansom unmanageable, for some reason.