unmanageable
unmanageable adjective: not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed.
Adjective
unmanageable (comparative more unmanageable, superlative most unmanageable)
- 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
- 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
- Synonyms:
- uncontrollable, ungovernable, unworkable
- Antonyms:
- manageable
unmanageable meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
unmanageable in Tamil
- அடங்காத, கீழ்ப்படியாத, இணங்காத, முரட்டுத்தனம் பண்ணுகிற, டக்கரடிக்கிற, கைமீறிப்போன
unmanageable in Urdu
- بےلگام, منہ زور, سرکش
unmanageable in Malayalam
- awkward, troublesome, inconvenient
- കെെകാര്യം ചെയ്യാൻ പ്രയാസമായ, ആയാസകരമായ, നോക്കിനടത്താൻ പ്രയാസമായ, കുഴപ്പം പിടിച്ച, വിലക്ഷണമായ, കുഴഞ്ഞ
- ungovernable, uncontrollable, unruly
- പിടിച്ചാൽ കിട്ടാത്ത, നിയന്ത്രിച്ചു നിർത്താനൊക്കാത്ത, അനിയന്ത്രിതമായ, നിയന്ത്രിക്കാനാവാത്ത, അടങ്ങിനിൽക്കാത്ത, ക്രമവിരുദ്ധമായ
Synonyms of unmanageable
Antonyms
Forms of unmanageable
| comparative | more unmanageable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unmanageable |
| alternative form | unmanagable |
Origin of unmanageable
From un- + manageable.
Questions about unmanageable
- What does unmanageable mean?
- Unmanageable means not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed.
- What is unmanageable in Tamil?
- Unmanageable in Tamil is அடங்காத, கீழ்ப்படியாத, இணங்காத. See Unmanageable meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unmanageable?
- Unmanageable is an adjective.
Words near unmanageable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unmanageable (page history and authors); unmanageable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unmanageable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unmanageable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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