Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Incapable of being governed, restrained, or controlled.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Incapable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; not to be regulated by laws or rules; refractory; unruly.
- Licentious; wild; unbridled: as, ungovernable passions. Synonyms Unmanageable, intractable, uncontrollable. See
govern .
Wiktionary
- adj. Not governable
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of persons
Etymologies
- un- + governable (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For a partisan such as Yglesias to say that America has become ungovernable is a rare opening of a window to his soul.”
“The idea that this one rule permits the minority that only represents a third of the country to render the country ungovernable is simply true.”
“The idea that this one rule permits the minority that only represents a third of the country to render the country ungovernable is simply true”
“Maybe it's just me, off here in Maine, one of the remote corners the various anti-Federalists wrote about as being ungovernable from the center.”
“America is 'ungovernable' -- and hopefully, it'll stay that way”
“In a country that de Gaulle famously described as ungovernable, this is a major achievement by Sarkozy.”
“Ever since she was admitted to the penitentiary she has exhibited signs and symptoms of insanity; her present symptoms are described as ungovernable temper, attacks of extreme nervousness, attacks of fits resembling those of acute mania, with loss of judgment and complete disregard for the consequences of any of her acts.”
“BDBlue The tax situation does make it mostly ungovernable, which is an additional issue.”
“Questioned by the Cape Argus on the issue of whether the ANC had launched a plan to make the province "ungovernable", she suggested such tricks were beneath her.”
“This predicament has led some longtime SAG-watchers to conclude that the guild is in danger of becoming "ungovernable" in its current state.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ungovernable’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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unyielding
refractory, unmanageable, ungovernable, obstinate, contumacious, stubborn, unyielding, unruly, perverse, refractoriness, inanimates, contrary and 12 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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quite a handful.
this girl has fire.
firebrand, spitfire, firecracker, rebel, insurrectionist, zealot, maverick, misfit, dreamer, agitator, instigator, inciter and 27 more...
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Ungovernable
Words related to ungovernable.
recalcitrant, obstreperous, defiant, uncontrollable, contumacious, undisciplinable, insubordinate, unruly, ungovernable, unbridled, recusant, contumax and 2 more...
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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
Tweets
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Nov 24, 2011
vanishedone Considering WeirdNet's definition for governable is quite reasonable, I'm not sure what's gone wrong here. Other than that it's WeirdNet. Jan 26, 2009