Antonyms for uncurbed


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kurb
Phonetic Transcription : kÉœrb


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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