unmanageable

comparative more unmanageable · superlative most unmanageable · alternative unmanagable

1. Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed.

   Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.

   1994, James Howard Kunstler, The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 10

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   It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].

   2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19

   It says the station's four ticket office windows were closed, with passengers directed to the five ticket machines, which "resulted in chaos". The TSSA reported: "Within four minutes the queues were unmanageable, and the ticket office was forced to reopen for customers, who were said to be unimpressed."

   2023 November 1, “Network News: TSSA: Benfleet ticket office 'stress test' was a failure”, in RAIL, number 995, page 9

   Synonyms: uncontrollable, ungovernable, unworkable · Antonyms: manageable