untamable
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈteɪməbl/
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indomable
- Her untamable curls were hidden beneath the paper O.R. cap, and without her black hair to soften her features, her face seemed to be all hard angles, her dark eyes probing and intense.
- wild and untamable
- untamable nature
They're untamable, so I take quite a lot of gel and just get the front.
- They're untamable, so I take quite a lot of gel and just get the front.
Examples
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Despite their efforts, the untamable river flooded the surrounding fields each spring.
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See, it was a woman as changing and harsh and untamable as the sea.
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These untamable figures were constructed so that their heads might fly off at any moment.
Academic text (1997) -
They're untamable, so I take quite a lot of gel and just get the front.
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Your spirit is untamable...
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It may even be that all truly great musical compositions also succeed in challenging us by letting us do the same: taste the untamable and possibly even come close to taming it.
Academic text (1997) -
She had inherited the wild curls from her mother; only her mother had gloried in having an untamable mane of hair, bringing even more attention to it by coloring it every shade of red imaginable.
Fiction book (1999) -
The untamable wilderness stretched for miles, filled with wild animals and dense vegetation.
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Her untamable spirit made her a natural leader, always challenging the status quo.
Synonyms
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Not able to be held back
People cannot tame them or keep them as pets
Antonyms
How Tame
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word untamable comes from the parts un- ('not'), tame ('to make gentle or train'), and -able ('able to be'), so it literally means 'not able to be tamed'. Think of a wild horse or the ocean that cannot be controlled, and you see why untamable describes something impossible to control.