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Uncontrollable vs Incontrollable - What's the difference?

uncontrollable | incontrollable |

As adjectives the difference between uncontrollable and incontrollable

is that uncontrollable is not able to be controlled, contained or governed while incontrollable is uncontrollable.

uncontrollable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.
    • She got the uncontrollable urge for some chocolate.

    Derived terms

    * uncontrollability * uncontrollableness * uncontrollably

    Related terms

    * control * controllable

    References

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    incontrollable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • uncontrollable
  • * {{quote-book, year=1728, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Set upon his will as the one law of Nature; storming forward with incontrollable violence: a very whirlwind of a man. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1844, author=Various, title=Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=Sax Rohmer, title=The Golden Scorpion, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}