unmanageable
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6.2
- adjective
- /ʌnˈmænɪdʒəbl/
:
incontrolable
- The number of students in this class has become so unmanageable that we need to add more teachers.
- unmanageable debt
- become unmanageable
- almost unmanageable
They may be having unmanageable night sweats, changes in body temperature.
- They may be having unmanageable night sweats, changes in body temperature.
- All of it becomes really unmanageable.
- And they become like completely unmanageable.
- How do I manage who I am when everything else feels a little bit unmanageable, you know?
- Now, stress often results in irritability for all of us, especially when that stress feels unmanageable.
- The word flood was also inaccurate because it presented the crisis and unmanageable.
- And in the end, if it's causing havoc in your life and it becomes unmanageable and you can't be, and you know that it makes you different, all right.
Examples
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- The crowd is becoming unmanageable.
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Father tells me that the interest is what makes the debt so unmanageable.
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I need your help now, or the fear will be unmanageable.
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That our lives had become unmanageable.
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And my life has become unmanageable.
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Sources tell us that he is so unmanageable that even his family and friends have stopped dealing with him.
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This is an unmanageable catastrophe.
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I know you thought this was a manageable situation... but some situations are unmanageable.
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A further 16% report experiencing a significant and unmanageable amount of work-related stress.
Academic text (2015) -
One, that I'm powerless over alcohol and my life has become unmanageable.
Synonyms
386
2.1
Hard to control or deal with, often not willing to help
49
3.9
Causing worry or annoyance and hard to deal with
47
4.9
Not able to be held back
33
8.5
Impossible to get past
22
8.7
Hard to manage, change, or control
16
6.7
Hard to move because it is large, heavy, or oddly shaped
4
8.6
Very difficult to control, for example a crowd or class
3
7.5
Too difficult to solve or deal with, like a problem
2
6.5
Too strong to control, it often makes people laugh loudly or feel great joy
1
5.7
Too strong to be stopped or managed
1
7.9
Not able to be fixed or controlled
1
8.1
Impossible to overcome or get past, like a problem you cannot solve
No one can change or affect something like the weather
Not able to be defeated or controlled
Hard to control or change
Impossible to control or stop
Too difficult or expensive for someone to manage easily
Impossible to learn completely, control, or become skilled at
Antonyms
How Manageable
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1.0
57
3.2
386
2.1
12
6.2
116
4.7
- Informal
17
6.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
unmanageable = manageable (transparent) = un + manage + able
Formed by prefixing 'un-' to 'manageable' (manage + -able); the meaning 'not manageable' is a straightforward negation.
Etymology
Unmanageable is made of un- meaning 'not' and manage, which comes from an old word for 'hand' and is the same idea as in manual. So something unmanageable is 'not able to be handled', which is why it is hard or impossible to control.