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Antonyms for uncurbed
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : kurb |
Phonetic Transcription : kɜrb |
Definition of uncurbed
Origin :- late 15c., "strap passing under the jaw of a horse" (used to restrain the animal), from Old French courbe (12c.) "curb on a horse," from Latin curvus, from curvare "to bend" (see curve (v.)). Meaning "enclosed framework" is from 1510s, probably originally with a notion of "curved;" extended to margins of garden beds 1731; to "margin of stone between a sidewalk and road" 1791 (sometimes spelled kerb). Figurative sense of "a check, a restraint" is from 1610s.
- As in inordinate : adj excessive, extravagant
- As in licentious : adj immoral, uncontrolled
- As in audacious : adj reckless, daring
- As in unbridled : adj unrestrained
- As in uninhibited : adj free and easy; without restraint
- As in unchecked : adj unrestrained
- As in unrestrained : adj excessive
- That brutal spirit of monopoly is still abroad and uncurbed.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 » by Various
- This uncurbed liberty, however, was necessarily of short duration.
- Extract from : « Old and New Paris, v. 2 » by Henry Sutherland Edwards
- And thought began to gallop again, uncurbed, frantic, stampeding.
- Extract from : « The Business of Life » by Robert W. Chambers
- To pain a person who stirred her antagonism, this twenty uncurbed years had made one of Lillian Drew's first instincts.
- Extract from : « To Him That Hath » by Leroy Scott
- Boone's eyes were sparkling; his imagination galloping free and uncurbed.
- Extract from : « The Tempering » by Charles Neville Buck
- All that was bitter and hard in her soul, rose up at once to resent the indignity which her own uncurbed impulses had provoked.
- Extract from : « Mabel's Mistake » by Ann S. Stephens
- That uncurbed dominion of the senses, to which his very boyhood had abandoned itself, found a willing slave in the man.
- Extract from : « Lucretia, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Some of the emotion of these lines arose simply from uncurbed youthful reaction from disappointment.
- Extract from : « The Friendly Club and Other Portraits » by Francis Parsons
- Dreams are a temporary insanity—reason sleeps and the mind roams the universe, uncurbed and wildly free.
- Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 » by Elbert Hubbard
- This was the uncurbed tendency of the age which ultimated into universal custom.
- Extract from : « The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors » by Kersey Graves
Synonyms for uncurbed
- abandoned
- adventurous
- amoral
- animal
- audacious
- aweless
- berserk
- bizarre
- blunt
- bold
- brassy
- brave
- candid
- carnal
- chaotic
- cheeky
- corrupt
- courageous
- crazed
- crazy
- cut loose
- daredevil
- dauntless
- debauched
- depraved
- desirous
- disorderly
- disproportionate
- dissolute
- dizzying
- enterprising
- enthusiastic
- exaggerated
- exorbitant
- expansive
- extortionate
- extravagant
- extreme
- fancy-free
- fast
- fast and loose
- fearless
- flamboyant
- fleshly
- foolhardy
- footloose
- frank
- free
- gratuitous
- gutty
- hanging out
- hysterical
- immoderate
- immoral
- impertinent
- impotent
- impure
- in the fast lane
- incontinent
- indiscriminate
- informal
- inordinate
- instinctive
- intemperate
- intrepid
- irrational
- lascivious
- lawless
- lax
- lecherous
- lewd
- liberated
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- lickerish
- limitless
- loose
- lubricious
- lustful
- madcap
- natural
- nervy
- no holds barred
- noisy
- off the cuff
- open
- outrageous
- overindulgent
- overmuch
- oversexed
- plenary
- preposterous
- profligate
- promiscuous
- rabid
- rampant
- rash
- relaxed
- reprobate
- resolute
- riotous
- risky
- salacious
- saturnalian
- satyric
- scabrous
- sensual
- smart ass
- spontaneous
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- swinging
- too much
- towering
- turbulent
- unafraid
- unbounded
- unbridled
- uncalled-for
- unchecked
- unconscionable
- unconstrained
- uncontrollable
- uncontrolled
- uncurbed
- undaunted
- undisciplined
- undue
- ungovernable
- ungoverned
- unhampered
- uninhibited
- unlimited
- unmanageable
- unmeasurable
- unmoral
- unprincipled
- unreasonable
- unrepressed
- unreserved
- unrestrained
- unrestricted
- unruly
- unself-conscious
- unsuppressed
- untamed
- untempered
- untrammeled
- unwarranted
- valiant
- venturesome
- violent
- wanton
- wasteful
- wild
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