1.
If you describe a feeling or physical action as ~, you mean that you cannot control it or prevent yourself from feeling or doing it.
It had been a time of almost ~ excitement...
He burst into ~ laughter at something I’d said.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
uncontrollably
I started shaking uncontrollably and began to cry.
ADV: usu ADV after v
2.
If you describe a person as ~, you mean that their behaviour is bad and that nobody can make them behave more sensibly.
Mark was withdrawn and ~...
Uncontrollable children grow into young criminals.
ADJ
3.
If you describe a situation or series of events as ~, you believe that nothing can be done to control them or to prevent things from getting worse.
If political and ethnic problems are not resolved the situation could become ~.
ADJ