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untameable
adjective
(alsountamable)uk /ʌnˈteɪ.mə.bəl/ us /ʌnˈteɪ.mə.bəl/
not able to be controlled:
The recent forest fires and floods show what a wild, untameable land we live in.
(of an animal) not able to be trained in order to make it less dangerous and more able to live around people:
The animals were imported for use as guard dogs but proved to be untameable.
Her untameable mop of thick sandy hair was growing more unruly every day.
We walked alongside the wild and restless, tumultuous, untameable sea.
Promoters of the new horseless carriage claimed that the horse was "an untameable brute".
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Uncontrolled
all hell breaks looseidiom
amok
amuck
corybantic
crazily
like madidiom
madding
maniacal
maniacally
non-regulated
spin out of controlidiom
spread like wildfireidiom
squirrelly
tearaway
unbridled
wayward
waywardly
waywardness
wig out
wigged out
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Violent or aggressive
Opposite
tameable
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