Unmanageable vs Incontrollable - What's the difference?
unmanageable | incontrollable |
Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed; not controllable.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= uncontrollable
* {{quote-book, year=1728, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.), chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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. }}
As adjectives the difference between unmanageable and incontrollable
is that unmanageable is not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed; not controllable while incontrollable is uncontrollable.unmanageable
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(en adjective)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable , unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}
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* uncontrollableAntonyms
* manageableReferences
*incontrollable
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