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

Example sentences :

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

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