Untameable

Quick meaning: Untameable is an adjective meaning Incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.

Meaning

Incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.

Example Sentences

“My lord,” said Mary, “it seems to me that you fling on my unhappy and devoted head those evils, which, with far more justice, I may impute to your own turbulent, wild, and untameable dispositions.”

Of all the carnivorous animals of the Archipelago the only one found in the Moluccas is Viverra tangalunga, which inhabits both Batchian and Bouru, and probably come of the other islands. I am inclined to think that this also may have been introduced accidentally, for it is often made captive by the Malays, who procure civet from it, and it is an animal very restless and untameable, and therefore likely to escape.

Word Forms

• untamable

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