incontinent
pronunciation
How to pronounce incontinent in British English:
UK [ɪn'kɒntɪnənt]
How to pronounce incontinent in American English:
US [ɪnˈkɑntənənt]
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- Adjective:
- not having control over urination and defecation
Word Origin
- incontinent (adj.)
- late 14c., "wanting in self restraint," from Old French incontinent, from Latin incontinentem (nominative incontinens) "incontinent, immoderate, intemperate," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + continens (see continent). Originally chiefly of sexual appetites; sense of "unable to control bowels or bladder" first attested 1828.
Example
- 1. People often become incontinent when they get very old .
- 2. He wasn 't just incontinent , he 's was a.
- 3. His incontinent behavior off stage shocked many people and they refused to attend the plays and movies in which he appeared .
- 4. The stroke had made him incontinent .
- 5. Many of our patients are incontinent .