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Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.

The breeches; trousers. [Jocose]

Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable.

Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title.

Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.

Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts; unseasonable food. -- Un*sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*sea"son*a*bly, adv.

Incapable of being sounded. [Obs.]

Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable. [Obs.] Cowell.

Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.

To make able; to enable; to strengthen. Chaucer.

That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak.

Obtainable; to be got at. The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [R.] Paley.

Inability to judge.

Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.

To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum. Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.

Inability to swallow.

The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.