incontrollable love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Being such that control is impossible.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not controllable; uncontrollable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not controllable; uncontrollable.

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  • adjective uncontrollable

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Examples

  • Ravenswood, contrasted with the peculiar determination of manner with which Caleb detailed his imaginary banquet, the whole struck her as so ridiculous that, despite every effort to the contrary, she burst into a fit of incontrollable laughter, in which she was joined by her father, though with more moderation, and finally by the Master of Ravenswood himself, though conscious that the jest was at his own expense.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • This was a mode of flattery too pleasing to encounter rebuke or censure; and the opportunity which it afforded the youth to form, as it were, a party of his own within the limits of the ancient barony of Avenel, added not a little to the audacity and decisive tone of a character, which was by nature bold, impetuous, and incontrollable.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Because, in a few words, the dispute between Russia and Georgia for domination in South Ossetia and Abkhazia wasn't virginal generation - actually, it was born as a result of Kosovo's independence, as another one affirmation of the incontrollable consequences that prejudiced support of independence movements can have.

    Opening Pandora's box of national sovereignty? 2008

  • And you've been running stories about me firing lawyers, and he's incontrollable, and he doesn't do this, and he's that.

    CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2005 2005

  • And still others who screamed from time to time in an incontrollable fever of terror.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • A curious feature of the affection which sometimes exists is an incontrollable desire to grind the teeth during the waking hours.

    The Art of Living in Australia 2004

  • “Where are your Things?” asked Mrs. Wragge, with a burst of incontrollable anxiety.

    No Name 2003

  • The document said the crisis had spawned a proliferation of weapons and anti-personnel mines, condemning the international community for "not concerning itself with this situation while it controls all the sources supplying these engines of death which are put at the disposal of incontrollable groups."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • But here, as he hath plainly declared the original emanation of all things from his eternal power, so hath he testified unto his constant rule over all in all times, places, ages, and seasons, by instances incontrollable.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • But if rage or desire implied freedom we must allow freedom to animals, infants, maniacs, the distraught, the victims of malpractice producing incontrollable delusions.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

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