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Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke.

The quality of being governable; manageableness.

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

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob.

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

Governableness.

Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden.

Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable. All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, -- to be violent on one side or the other. Sir W. Temple.

Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent. Impotent of tongue, her silence broke. Dryden.

Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather. Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst. Milton. Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing. Ecclus. xxiii. 13.

With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. Dryden.

Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.

Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.

Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable. -- Mas"ter*less*ness, n.

Governable; tractable. [Obs.]

A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.

Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak.

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

Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii. 8.