Synonyms and Antonyms of ungovernable
1
given to resisting authority or another's control
- a handful of ungovernable students are disrupting the learning environment for everyone else
balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)
noncooperative, uncooperative
insurgent, mutinous
adamant, adamantine, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, negativistic, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding
fractious, restive, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild
perverse, resistant, wrongheaded
bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, monkeying, monkeyish, naughty
undisciplined
dissident, nonconformist
discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, ornery, rude, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly
acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, cooperative, deferential, obliging
yielding
behaved, disciplined, well-bred
courteous, polite, respectful
kowtowing, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient
decorous, mannerly, orderly, proper
controllable, governable, manageable, trainable
2
given to resisting control or discipline by others
- resigned to the fact that my cat is basically is an ungovernable beast with a will of his own
froward, headstrong, incontrollable, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)
bullheaded, contrary, difficult, hardheaded, incorrigible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stiff, stiff-necked, stubborn
undisciplined, unpunished
uncontrolled, wild
boisterous, irrepressible, rambunctious, rowdy
disobedient, indocile, insubordinate, rebellious
misbehaving, naughty
