undocile

adjective

Definition of undocilenext
as in uncontrolled

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  1. uncontrolled
  2. untrained
  3. unbroken
  4. savage
  5. untamed
Adjective
  • In another rural health example, a different insurer learned that uncontrolled diabetes cost them $248,000 per member per year.
    Emotivo Health, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • And just as nuclear blasts produce a distinctive mushroom cloud, uncontrolled wildfires can be powerful enough to generate their own weather.
    Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
Definition of uncontrolled
Adjective
  • Most wine lovers know that the word Sauvignon comes from the French word sauvage and the word blanc simply means white, but most people don’t know the reason is because when untrained vines of the variety have a distinctly unkempt appearance.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Together, the films aimed to capture a modern child’s perspective, with untrained leads and fairy-tale logic, but ended up weighted down by liberal worldliness and anxieties: Wild Things ruminated on mental health, Beasts on climate change.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
Definition of untrained
Adjective
  • Its deliberate pacing sets the mood for the movie’s haunting atmosphere, and its collection of long, unbroken takes vibrate with dreamlike intensity.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The scene is only a few firm details away from abstraction, a Rorschach test tilted sideways—not a thing plus its echo but an unbroken flat-deep surface.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of unbroken
Adjective
  • The 2023 grand marshal is former Arizona Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords, gravely wounded in a savage mass shooting in 2011 that also killed six people.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • As savage Arctic cold was getting ready to surge south across North America, vivid imagery based on data from weather models showed us what was going to happen.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
Definition of savage
Adjective
  • Sign up Get your heart pumping in Big Tree Country (Image credit: Catherine Garcia / The Week) Perthshire's untamed wilderness is why the area is known as Big Tree Country.
    Catherine Garcia, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • He’s known for his one-of-a-kind designs that feature an untamed, naturalistic aesthetic that pays homage to the local landscape.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of untamed
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