UNDOCILE Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

undocile

adjective

Definition of undocile

as in uncontrolled

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Adjective

The spacecraft started tumbling uncontrolled after launch, forcing NASA to abandon the mission.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 26 Aug. 2026
This uncontrolled melting widens the cavern and dangerously thins the structural salt pillars separating adjacent domes.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of uncontrolled

Adjective

The agency said the mustang is untrained and requires professionals to safely capture it.

— Tara Lynch, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
This manicure might appear as a classic red to the untrained eye, but two incredibly detailed leaf clusters peek out on the accent nails, turning the wash of bold red into little tomatoes on your fingertips, fresh off the vine.

— Sunnah Rasheed, InStyle, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of untrained

Adjective

This chemical reaction forms an unbroken, self-healing aluminum oxide film across structural parts and fuel cladding.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
Thank you for teaching two more children in a long, unbroken legacy to learn more, read more, dream more, care more, and be more.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of unbroken

Adjective

Cole, who has to maneuver his way around 20 savage crew members, each of whom will need to be killed, doesn’t waste a homicidal movement.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
The savage battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa had already demonstrated the ferocity with which Japanese forces would defend their homeland.

— James M. Scott, Time, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of savage

Adjective

Wuthering Heights In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte presents a world of conflicts, frictions between families, passions, and attachments—especially those of Catherine Earnshaw and the tortured Heathcliff—across an untamed landscape.

— Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
But the preseason remains relatively unclaimed, and therefore untamed, territory.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of untamed

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