Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Incapable of being governed, restrained, or controlled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; not to be regulated by laws or rules; refractory; unruly.
- Licentious; wild; unbridled: as, ungovernable passions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
governable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of persons
Etymologies
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Examples
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The idea that this one rule permits the minority that only represents a third of the country to render the country ungovernable is simply true.
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For a partisan such as Yglesias to say that America has become ungovernable is a rare opening of a window to his soul.
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The idea that this one rule permits the minority that only represents a third of the country to render the country ungovernable is simply true
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Maybe it's just me, off here in Maine, one of the remote corners the various anti-Federalists wrote about as being ungovernable from the center.
Balkinization 2006
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Maybe it's just me, off here in Maine, one of the remote corners the various anti-Federalists wrote about as being ungovernable from the center.
Balkinization 2006
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Maybe it's just me, off here in Maine, one of the remote corners the various anti-Federalists wrote about as being ungovernable from the center.
Balkinization 2006
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Maybe it's just me, off here in Maine, one of the remote corners the various anti-Federalists wrote about as being ungovernable from the center.
Balkinization 2006
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Maybe it's just me, off here in Maine, one of the remote corners the various anti-Federalists wrote about as being ungovernable from the center.
Balkinization 2006
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Maybe it's just me, off here in Maine, one of the remote corners the various anti-Federalists wrote about as being ungovernable from the center.
Balkinization 2006
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Maybe it's just me, off here in Maine, one of the remote corners the various anti-Federalists wrote about as being ungovernable from the center.
Balkinization 2006
vanishedone commented on the word ungovernable
Considering WeirdNet's definition for governable is quite reasonable, I'm not sure what's gone wrong here. Other than that it's WeirdNet.
January 26, 2009
Lee.courtney990@gmail.com commented on the word ungovernable
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November 24, 2011