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Indocile vs Untameable - What's the difference?

indocile | untameable |

As adjectives the difference between indocile and untameable

is that indocile is unwilling to be taught or instructed; intractable or recalcitrant while untameable is incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.

indocile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unwilling to be taught or instructed; intractable or recalcitrant.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l) (obsolete) ? ** (l) (obsolete) ** (l) (obsolete) ** (l) (obsolete) * (l)

    References

    * “ indocile, a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----

    untameable

    English

    Alternative forms

    *untamable

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.
  • *1820 , , The Abbot , ch. 22,
  • *:"My lord," said Mary, "it seems to me that you fling on my unhappy and devoted head those evils, which, with far more justice, I may impute to your own turbulent, wild, and untameable dispositions."