unbridled

[ uhn-brahyd-ld ]
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adjective
  1. not controlled or restrained: unbridled enthusiasm.

  2. not fitted with a bridle.

Origin of unbridled

1
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English unbrydled. See un-1, bridle, + -ed2

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How to use unbridled in a sentence

  • Their generosity did not suffice for his dissipations, his cafe bills and his unbridled taste for billiards.

    Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
  • In a word, in all countries we perceive that the ministers of religion have exercised in all ages the most unbridled license.

    Letters To Eugenia | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
  • The unbridled dominion of the passions disturbs the peace of the individual and the harmony of society.

  • The unbridled dominion of the passions disturbs the peace of the individual, and the harmony of society.

  • He was an obscure youth of seventeen, with ambition already unbridled, when the eyes of my Lady Castlemaine first fell upon him.

    Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. Trowbridge

British Dictionary definitions for unbridled

unbridled

/ (ʌnˈbraɪdəld) /


adjective
  1. with all restraints removed

  2. (of a horse, etc) wearing no bridle

Derived forms of unbridled

  • unbridledly, adverb
  • unbridledness, noun

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