uncontrollable

  • 41uncontrollable urge — urge that cannot be controlled, impulse that cannot be conquered, very strong desire …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 42uncontrollable turnover — See labour turnover rate …

    Big dictionary of business and management

  • 43uncontrollable impulse — As an excuse for the commission of an act otherwise criminal, this term means an impulse towards its commission of such fixity and intensity that it cannot be resisted by the person subject to it, in the enfeebled condition of his will and moral… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 44uncontrollable event — An irresistible occurrence. An occurrence which can neither be restrained nor prevented. Lehman, Stern & Co. v Morgan s Louisiana & Texas Railroad & S.S. Co. 115 La 1, 38 So 873 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 45uncontrollable impulse — See irresistible impulse …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 46The Uncontrollable — Infobox musical artist Name = The Uncontrollable Img capt = Blag Dahlia (left) and Nick Oliveri (right) Background = group or band Origin = Genre = Acoustic rock Years active = Label = URL = Current members = Blag Dahlia Nick Oliveri Past members …

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  • 47Uncontrollableness — Uncontrollable Un con*trol la*ble, a. 1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. [1913 Webster] 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 48Uncontrollably — Uncontrollable Un con*trol la*ble, a. 1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. [1913 Webster] 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 49Addiction — Uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a substance such as a drug or alcohol. Dependence is such a point that stopping is very difficult and causes severe physical and mental reactions. * * * Habitual psychological and physiologic dependence …

    Medical dictionary

  • 50compulsion — Uncontrollable thoughts or impulses to perform an act, often repetitively, as an unconscious mechanism to avoid unacceptable ideas and desires which, by themselves, arouse anxiety; the anxiety becomes fully manifest if performance of the… …

    Medical dictionary