untameable

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adjective

Incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveuntameable (comparative more untameable, superlative most untameable)

comparative more untameable · superlative most untameable · alternative untamable

  1. Incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.

    “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.”

    1820, Walter Scott, chapter 22, in The Abbot
    1 more example

    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.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, chapter 27, in The Malay Archipelago, volume II

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishtame
  9. Englishuntameable

From un- + tame + -able.

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Translations

Bulgarian неукротим
  • неукротим (neukrotim)cannot be tamed
Dutch ontembaar
  • ontembaarcannot be tamed
Esperanto nemalsovaĝigebla
  • nemalsovaĝigeblacannot be tamed
French indomptable
  • indomptablecannot be tamed
German unzähmbar
  • unzähmbarcannot be tamed
Greek αδάμαστος
  • αδάμαστος (adámastos)cannot be tamed
Portuguese indomável, esquivo
  • indomávelcannot be tamed
  • esquivocannot be tamed
Spanish indomable, indómito
  • indomablecannot be tamed
  • indómitocannot be tamed
Swedish otämjbar
  • otämjbarcannot be tamed
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APA

untameable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untameable

MLA

“untameable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untameable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untameable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untameable.

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