ungovernable

[US]/ʌn'gʌv(ə)nəb(ə)l/
[UK]/ʌn'gʌvɚnəbl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. difficult to control

Real-world Examples

The second reason is that Republicans are setting a precedent which, if followed, would make America ungovernable.

Source: The Economist - Comprehensive

Some unfathomable men became more and more ungovernable.

Source: Pan Pan

And the risk of it happening is one of the big reasons critics think solar geoengineering is ungovernable and unsustainable.

Source: Vox opinion

They shrink by an ungovernable instinct, as they would shrink from laceration.

Source: Adam Bede (Volume Four)

If Russia's aim was to undermine Ukrainians' trust in their government and render the country ungovernable, it failed.

Source: The Economist Science and Technology

She would have loved what was happening to the place with the arrival of this crazy, pregnant foreign woman and her utterly ungovernable family.

Source: A man named Ove decides to die.

Hogs, mules, horses, and cattle are afraid of bears, and are seized with ungovernable terror when they approach, particularly hogs and mules.

Source: Summer walks through the mountains.

By 2009 the Shabab, with a core of 5,000-odd fighters, had mastered a good half of the country and made most of the rest virtually ungovernable.

Source: The Economist - Arts

He was probably about five hundred pounds in weight, a broad, rusty bundle of ungovernable wildness, a happy fellow whose lines have fallen in pleasant places.

Source: Summer walks through the mountains.

Miss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to break into ungovernable peals of laughter.

Source: The places where angels dare not tread.

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