MEANING
1. Not subject to effective restraint, regulation, or management.
2. Conducted without a control group or comparison condition against which the investigated treatment can be assessed.
Use it for
describing growth or behavior that is not effectively restrained; identifying a process occurring without regulation; distinguishing unmanaged change from planned adjustmentSeparates absence of restraint from absence of a research comparison condition. Academic functions: Qualification / Uncertainty, Research / Methodology, Limitation.
Words that belong together
- uncontrolled growth
- uncontrolled expansion
- uncontrolled behavior
On the page
The analysis links uncontrolled expansion to the absence of effective oversight.
Uncontrolled growth in costs does not identify which mechanism produced the increase.
The uncontrolled study records improvement but cannot separate treatment effects from other changes over time.
The discussion treats findings from uncontrolled trials as preliminary rather than conclusive causal evidence.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- uncontrolled
Usage notes
Attributive or predicative. More uncontrolled is possible for degree of restraint; the research-design sense is normally non-gradable. A lexical adjective, not a separate tense entry for control. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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