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Impossible to control or govern

Resistant to control or authority

Lacking moderation or control in one's behavior or habits

Violent and wild, not able to be contained

Significant or great in degree or intensity

Extremely difficult to endure or tolerate

Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood, thinking or behavior

Having a passionate nature

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Adjective

Impossible to control or govern

without law and order

insurrectionary

undisciplinable

ill-disciplined

attention-seeking

obstinately disobedient

insurrectionist

unaccommodating

individualistic

passive-aggressive

stubborn as a mule

full of mischief

like a loose cannon

lacking self-control

disorganized^US

disorganised^UK

confrontational

untrammelled^UK

self-opinionated

impossible to cope with

lacking self-restraint

lacking control

ready for a fight

spoiling for a fight

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“That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul.”

Adjective

Resistant to control or authority

“The insurgent movement grew stronger, making the region practically ungovernable, as it undermined the control and authority of the government.”

Adjective

Lacking moderation or control in one's behavior or habits

exceeding bounds

self-gratifying

untrammelled^UK

enjoyment-seeking

pleasure-oriented

pleasure-seeking

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Violent and wild, not able to be contained

beside yourself

driven to distraction

out of one's wits

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Significant or great in degree or intensity

knock-down-and-drag-out

hammer and tongs

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Extremely difficult to endure or tolerate

Adjective

Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood, thinking or behavior

blowing hot and cold

constantly changing

full of ups and downs

without purpose

disorganized^US

rapidly changing

catch-as-catch-can

not conscientious

disorganised^UK

always changing

without direction

rapidly evolving

continuously changing

subject to change

likely to change

on-again-off-again

vicissitudinous

out of the blue

shot-in-the-dark

from left field

in fits and starts

all over the place

on again and off again

all over the map

few and far between

higgledy-piggledy

all over the shop

in bits and pieces

all over the lot

when the mood strikes

in a state of change

thin on the ground

out of the common

once in a blue moon

as scarce as hens' teeth

trial and error

ill-thought-out

by bits and pieces

at sixes and sevens

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Adjective

Having a passionate nature

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