UNCONTROLLABLY Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

uncontrollably

adverb

as in crazily

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Recent Examples of uncontrollably Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026 Back in their dorm room after the beating, Valentine watched as Okeadu began to tremble uncontrollably. — ABC News, 30 June 2026

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Adverb

And when Andreeva hits one of her crazily creative shots and turns to Martínez for praise, she is met with a smile, and maybe some clapping.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 June 2026
The scene used one of the film’s funniest visual gags, an apartment so crazily tilted that nobody inside it could stand up straight.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026

Definition of crazily

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And as things stand, San Francisco’s bullpen could desperately use someone like the submariner.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
Shobeir made another brilliant stop on a close-range header by Alexis Mac Allister just after the hydration break as Argentina desperately searched for an equalizer.

— Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 July 2026

Definition of desperately

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Jessica Gonzalez hustles behind her booth at the recent Renegade Craft Fair, frantically ringing up sales, answering questions and packaging her beeswax candles.

— Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
For five days Oswadeliz Núñez Ramírez has been frantically searching for her son across hospitals in La Guaira and Caracas.

— Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026

Definition of frantically

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As Egypt celebrated wildly, referee François Letexier went to the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) screen to look at a foul that may have occurred in the buildup.

— Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
Marfan syndrome is particularly mysterious because members of a family who carry the same exact mutation can have wildly different health trajectories, Catherine Boileau, a geneticist at the French health research institution INSERM, told me.

— Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

Definition of wildly

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Third base coach Bobby Crosby frenetically waved him home, and Wilson hit the turn hard.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
And the score by Michael Abels (who collaborated with Jordan Peele on Get Out and Nope) is an all-timer, unsettling and steeped in dread to start and then frenetically nerve-shredding as things get hairier.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026

Definition of frenetically

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The catastrophies that our heroine averts are awfully small potatoes — a bulldozer running amok, an amusement park ride speeding out of control, some prankish teenagers scheming to turn the girl’s shower into a steambath.

— Arthur Knight, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
Following a string of low-budget hits, Wheatley was handed the reins of the sequel to the smash Jason Statham-starring action film about a prehistoric shark run amok in the modern world.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 20 June 2026

Definition of amok

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This is why couples who prioritize trust, companionship and emotional responsiveness — every day, no matter what — are the ones who still seem madly in love decades later, even when youth and novelty has long since faded.

— Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
And all the while underlings scrambled madly for a correct number.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026

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