incontinent
Meaning of incontinent
- having no or insufficient voluntary control over urination or defecation.
elderly, incontinent parents
- lacking self-restraint; uncontrolled.
the incontinent hysteria of the massed pop fans
late Middle English (in incontinent (sense 2)): from Old French, or from Latin incontinent-, from in- ‘not’ + continent- ‘holding together’ (see continent2). incontinent (sense 1) dates from the early 19th century.
Information about incontinent
- It is an adjective.
- Languages in which incontinent is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of incontinent
in-con-ti-nent
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- incontinent is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
incontinent synonyms
Meaning not restrained or restricted:
Meaning not controlled:
Meaning uncontrolled; unconstrained:
Meaning (especially of something undesirable) not controlled or restrained:
Meaning not brought under control:
Meaning not restrained or kept in check:
Meaning not restrained or repressed:
Meaning unrestrained or uninhibited:
Meaning not controllable:
Meaning impossible to control or govern:
incontinent antonyms
Meaning characterized by reserve or moderation; unemotional or dispassionate:
Words that rhyme with incontinent
anent, emanent, foreanent, hereanent, immanent, impermanent, manent, nonimmanent, nonpermanent, permanent, pseudopermanent, remanent, semipermanent, subpermanent, thereanent, thermoremanent, unimmanent, unpermanent, whereanent, enent, forenent, omnitenent, tenent, Continent, abstinent, appertinent, archicontinent, continent, desinent, eminent, imminent, impertinent, inappertinent, indesinent, nonpertinent, nonprominent, overprominent, pertinent, preeminent, prominent, protocontinent, semicontinent, semipertinent, subcontinent, supercontinent, supereminent, sustinent, uncontinent, uneminent, unimminent