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Definition of Incontrollable
1. a. Not controllable; uncontrollable.
Definition of Incontrollable
1. Adjective. uncontrollable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incontrollable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incontrollable
Literary usage of Incontrollable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern by Walter Savage Landor, Graeme Mercer Adam (1901)
"incontrollable ! incontrollable ! Indeed the laughter is immoderate. And you all
the while are sitting as grave as a judge; I mean a criminal one, ..."
2. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1846)
"... which demands a different course of conduct to be pursued."—Hansard's Debates.
Now the incontrollable principle here laid down, is simply this ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1873)
"The inconvenience caused by touching the wart is one of intense pain—that of
touching the other, one of intense sensibility, attended with an incontrollable ..."
4. The Collected Works of Dr. P. M. Latham by Peter Mere Latham, Robert Martin, Thomas Watson (1878)
"Some died of long-continued and incontrollable diarrhoea, in whom no other morbid
appearance was found after death, but a few of these small spots of ..."
5. Materia Medica Pura by Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1880)
"He displays incontrollable strength in his fury. [GREDING, 1. c., p. 76. ...
Fury.8 [SLOANE, 1. c.—GREDING, pp. 75, 79, 81.] incontrollable frenzy. ..."
6. A Text-book of mental diseases by William Bevan Lewis (1890)
"Or as an incontrollable impulse devoid of motive ; (c. ... incontrollable impulse
is another form of morbid activity which reveals itself in the subjects of ..."
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