Incontinent
adj, adv, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 One who is unchaste. obsolete
"O, old Incontinent, dost not thou shame"
- 1 Unable to contain or retain. often
- 2 Plagued by incontinence; unable to retain natural discharges or evacuations, most commonly of urine or feces.
"About 90% of all koalas have chlamydia... which makes them incontinent, so they spend all day pissing themselves."
- 3 Lacking moral or sexual restraint, moderation or self-control, especially of sexual desire.
- 4 Unrestrained or unceasing.
"an incontinent river of pure water"
- 5 Immediate; without delay. colloquial
- 1 not having control over urination and defecation wordnet
- 1 Immediately, forthwith. not-comparable, obsolete
""As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none.""
Example
More examples"Obstetric fistula is a hole between the vagina and rectum or bladder that is caused by prolonged obstructed labor, leaving a woman incontinent; unable to control the flow of her urine or her feces."
Etymology
From Middle English incontinent, from Old French incontinent, from Latin incontinens, from in + continens.
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