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11 words match “UNGOVERNABLE”

UNGOVERNABLE a.
le; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
ENFROWARD v.
To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.
HEADSTRONG a. 2 definitions
Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden.
HEADY a.
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.
IMPOTENT a.
Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent. Impotent of tongue, her silence broke. Dryden.
INTEMPERATE a.
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.
LITERALLY adv.
With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. Dryden.
MADNESS n.
Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.
MASTERLESS a.
Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable. -- Mas"ter*less*ness, n.
UNCONTROLLABLE a.
Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.
UNRULY a.
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.