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All ungovernable synonyms

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adj ungovernable

  • turbulent — being in a state of agitation or tumult; disturbed: turbulent feelings or emotions.
  • indocile — not willing to receive teaching, training, or discipline; fractious; unruly.
  • furious — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
  • in-compliant — not compliant; unyielding.
  • bull-headed — blindly obstinate; stubborn, headstrong, or stupid
  • ill-starred — doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky: an ill-starred enterprise.
  • in-continent — unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
  • anarchic — If you describe someone or something as anarchic, you disapprove of them because they do not recognize or obey any rules or laws.
  • mutinous — disposed to, engaged in, or involving revolt against authority.
  • insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • incontinent — unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
  • hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
  • demoniac — of, like, or suggestive of a demon; demonic
  • locked in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • intractable — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
  • anarchistic — An anarchistic person believes in anarchism. Anarchistic activity or literature promotes anarchism.
  • carried away — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
  • disorderly — characterized by disorder; irregular; untidy; confused: a disorderly desk.
  • naughty — improper, tasteless, indecorous, or indecent: a naughty word.
  • mule — a lounging slipper that covers the toes and instep or only the instep.
  • dissentious — contentious; quarrelsome.
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • headstrong — determined to have one's own way; willful; stubborn; obstinate: a headstrong young man.
  • hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.

adjective ungovernable

  • insubmissive — Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient.
  • indisciplined — Alternative form of undisciplined.
  • infestive — Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
  • impossible — not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.
  • misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
  • wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
  • lawless — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
  • wayward — turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient: a wayward son; wayward behavior.
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