释义 |
ungovernableun‧gov‧ern‧a‧ble /ʌnˈɡʌvənəbəl $ -vər-/ adjective - But he was also wonderfully ungovernable and frank.
- By 1979 the provinces themselves had become ungovernable, with even the Elector Counts facing rivals and rebellions within their own lands.
- His work is filled with a hatred of savagery, of ungovernable elements in both self and state.
- It was said, first, that the country was ungovernable, and secondly, that there was an unbridgeable north-south gap.
- The bonds of brotherhood are treacherously betrayed by ungovernable selfishness and egotism.
- This state of affairs, he said, jeopardized perestroika, unnerved the population, and threatened to make the country ungovernable.
1a country or area that is ungovernable is one in which the people cannot be controlled by the government, the police etc2formal feelings or types of behaviour that are ungovernable are impossible to control: ungovernable rage |