unmanageable

unmanageable
adj
1. unruly, refractory, ungovernable, uncontrollable, difficult; recalcitrant, froward, contumacious, uncooperative, balky, obstreperous; willful, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, inflexible; perverse, contrary, wrong-headed, cross-grained, Archaic. untoward, intractable; unsubmissive, indocile, wayward, lawless, rebellious; irrepressible, wild, out of hand, beyond control, resistant, defiant; restive, fractious, incorrigible.
2. unwieldy, unmaneuverable, uncomfortable, inconvenient, awkward; cumbersome, hulky, bulky, ponderous, incommodious; (of hair) unruly, straggly, disheveled, stringy, uncombable.

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