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

  • adjective Difficult or impossible to control or restrain.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not repressible; incapable of being repressed, restrained, or kept under control.

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

  • adjective Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not containable or controllable.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective impossible to repress or control

Etymologies

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From ir- +‎ repressible.

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