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under control
adjective as in controlled
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in obedient
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- acquiescent
- amenable
- at one's beck and call
- biddable
- complaisant
- controllable
- docious
- duteous
- governable
- honoring
- in one's clutches
- in one's pocket
- in one's power
- obeisant
- obliging
- observant
- on a string
- pliant
- regardful
- resigned
- reverential
- sheeplike
- tame
- tractable
- venerating
- well-trained
- willing
- wrapped around finger
- yielding
adjective as in restrained
Example Sentences
The Department of Health and Social Care said it was working to "bring waiting lists under control", adding that the NHS had recently launched an "ADHD taskforce" to help tackle the delays.
"If you can get inflation under control, you will see interest rates come down in the UK," she added.
Gemma said she and Nick first suspected Seren had allergies when she was three months old as she had "very sore skin, widespread eczema and it was hard to get under control".
“With our border under control in El Centro, we go where the threat is,” Bovino wrote in response to someone on Instagram who said they were puzzled as to why Border Patrol was conducting operations so far north of the border.
The dangerous combination of low humidity, bone-dry fuels and shifting winds has complicated efforts to get the wildfires under control.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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