Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not capable of being tamed, domesticated, subjugated, or subdued; not to be rendered tame, docile, or serviceable to man; incapable of being brought from a wild, savage, barbarous, rude, or violent state: as, an untamable tiger; an untamable savage; untamable passions.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
untameable .
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Examples
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John, however, doesn't want kids just yet, so he buys his wife an adorable puppy that grows up to be overly energetic and utterly untamable, which is actually not such a bad thing.
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His carroty thatch no longer crisp from the careful military cut had grown into a kind of untamable towslement.
The Mountebank William John Locke 1896
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I became increasingly drawn to the team of breakers who worked them, trying their damnedest to tame the untamable.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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Much like our own United States of America -- a land which includes the most refined and developed urban centers in the world, and at the same time claims home to wonders of nature which remain untamable: the canyons of Colorado, the Redwoods of California, the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee -- this is a land that remains much the same as it was before man ever got his hands on it.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: To Beard or Not to Beard, That Is the Question: Musings on the Fall of Matisyahu's Facial Locks and Other Natural Disasters Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Doug, one of the narrators of the first part of the novel, thinks of Myra and his father's untamable horse, Wild Rose, as two-of-a-kind; Doug calls the horse Myra's "familiar."
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In the movie, Mr. Fehmiu plays King, "a handsome boxer-turned-barman" who falls for Rosa, "a fiery and untamable beauty in the decaying Serbian town of Bor," according to the movie's synopsis.
A Baker Cooks Up Film for Tribeca Sumathi Reddy 2011
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Much like our own United States of America -- a land which includes the most refined and developed urban centers in the world, and at the same time claims home to wonders of nature which remain untamable: the canyons of Colorado, the Redwoods of California, the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee -- this is a land that remains much the same as it was before man ever got his hands on it.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: To Beard or Not to Beard, That Is the Question: Musings on the Fall of Matisyahu's Facial Locks and Other Natural Disasters Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Much like our own United States of America -- a land which includes the most refined and developed urban centers in the world, and at the same time claims home to wonders of nature which remain untamable: the canyons of Colorado, the Redwoods of California, the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee -- this is a land that remains much the same as it was before man ever got his hands on it.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: To Beard or Not to Beard, That Is the Question: Musings on the Fall of Matisyahu's Facial Locks and Other Natural Disasters Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Much like our own United States of America -- a land which includes the most refined and developed urban centers in the world, and at the same time claims home to wonders of nature which remain untamable: the canyons of Colorado, the Redwoods of California, the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee -- this is a land that remains much the same as it was before man ever got his hands on it.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: To Beard or Not to Beard, That Is the Question: Musings on the Fall of Matisyahu's Facial Locks and Other Natural Disasters Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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I became increasingly drawn to the team of breakers who worked them, trying their damnedest to tame the untamable.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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