UNCONTROLLABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncontrollably mean? 

• UNCONTROLLABLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNCONTROLLABLY has 1 sense:

1. in an uncontrolled manner

  Familiarity information: UNCONTROLLABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCONTROLLABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an uncontrolled manner

Context example:

she laughed uncontrollably

Pertainym:

uncontrolled (not being under control; out of control)

 Context examples 

A key concern with any stem cell therapy is its oncogenic potential: the ability for cells to multiply uncontrollably and form tumors.

(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

Yet, still, words like those I have recorded would burst uncontrollably from me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Differentiated tumor cells resemble normal cells and tend to grow and spread at a slower rate than undifferentiated or poorly differentiated tumor cells, which lack the structure and function of normal cells and grow uncontrollably.

(Cellular Differentiation, NCI Dictionary)