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unmanageably

unmanageably

1 7.3
In a way that is too difficult to control or handle
  • adverb
  • /ʌnˈmænɪdʒəbli/
translation icon : incontrolablemente
  • With so many tasks piling up, his workload became unmanageably high before the deadline.
  • unmanageably large

It's just going to be unmanageably slow.

Examples

  • We need to understand that India has an unmanageably large population mired in poverty, and we are spinning our wheels trying to feed it.

    Blog text (3)
  • She had remained looking frustrated at her morning, as if the piece of the day was behaving unmanageably.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I didn't use to, but when I was writing "The Skaters," the lines became unmanageably long.

    Blog text (3)
  • The use of technology prevents farming out courses to more poorly trained personnel and can stem the tide of unmanageably large sections.

    Academic text (2002)
  • As you will recall, India has an unmanageably large population mired in poverty, and we are spinning our wheels trying to prop it up.

    Blog text (27)
  • We need to understand that Pakistan has an unmanageably large Sunni population mired in poverty, and we are spinning our wheels trying to feed it.

    Blog text (27)
  • As you will recall, along the Afghan/Pak borders, Pakistan has an unmanageably large fundamentalist Taliban population mired in poverty, and we are spinning our wheels trying to prop it up.

    Blog text (27)
  • As the divergence between Java code in JDK and that in the Netscape browser was becoming unmanageably large, the presidents of Netscape and JavaSoft invited IBM to perform a confidential and binding arbitration.

    Academic text (2011)
  • After the storm, the fallen branches created an unmanageably large obstacle in the road.

  • The committee faced an unmanageably long list of complaints to address in their meeting.

Synonyms

out of hand
vsunmanageably
  • Informal
176 4.8

A situation that is not under control and hard to manage

describes the way something happens rather than the situation itself
uncontrollably
vsunmanageably
26 5.6

You cannot stop doing something because of strong feeling

covers situations that are hard to control or only difficult to restrain
intractably
vsunmanageably
1 9.2

In a way that is very hard to manage or control

focuses on difficulty of control or handling rather than broader dealing
unworkably
vsunmanageably
7.7

In a way that does not work well or is too difficult to use

focuses on lack of control rather than being impractical or nonfunctional

Antonyms

In a way that is easy to handle

How Manageable

easily
1.0
smoothly
173 2.3
adequately
83 3.0
poorly
283 1.4
unmanageably
1 7.3
chaotically
1 5.6

Surface Forms

unmanageably positive

Morphology

unmanageably = unmanageable (transparent) = un + manage + able + ly

Standard adverbial formation by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'unmanageable'.

Etymology

Unmanageably breaks into un- 'not', manage 'to handle or control', -able 'can be' and -ly which turns it into a word that shows how something happens. So, unmanageably means 'in a way that cannot be handled or controlled'.