uncontrollable
adjEtymology From un- + controllable.
1
Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.
- She got the uncontrollable urge for some chocolate.
- "Ethel!" exclaimed Norbourne, his strong and uncontrollable emotion betraying the power that her name still had over him: he tried to say something more, but the words died on his lips.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 273:
- Derived terms
- uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, uncontrollably
- Related terms
- control, controllable