incontrollable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Set upon his will as the one law of Nature; storming forward with incontrollable violence: a very whirlwind of a man."
- "They had tasked our improved capacity for bearing annoyances ever since we first set foot in Sicily; but here they are perfectly incontrollable, stinging and buzzing at us without mercy or truce, not to be driven off for a second, nor persuaded to drown themselves on any consideration."
- "Terror claimed him--the terror which he had with difficulty been fending off throughout that nightmare interview with Fo-Hi. Madness threatened him, and he was seized by an almost incontrollable desire to shout execrations--prayers--he knew not what."
Etymology
From in- + controllable.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: in
Usage
Inflected Forms
more incontrollable (comparative)
most incontrollable (superlative)