Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.
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Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; a…
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; a…
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly condu…
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
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