irrepressible

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   impossible to repress or control

   An irrepressible chatterbox.

2. 2
   adj

   Not containable or controllable.

   [...] here the two friends burst into a variety of giggles, and glanced from time to time, over the tops of their pocket-handkerchiefs, at Nicholas, who from a state of unmixed astonishment, gradually fell into one of irrepressible laughter [...].

3. 3
   adj

   Especially high-spirited, outspoken, or insistent.

   The irrepressible landlady gave the freest expression to her feelings.

From ir- + repressible.

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