LOOSE CANNON Synonyms

• involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• liable to sudden unpredictable change

• having no fixed course

• likely to perform unpredictably

• quickly aroused to anger

• characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

• proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus

• without forethought

• having the power of driving or impelling

• determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

• characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

• free from external control and constraint

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

• a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• not controlled by a party or interest group

• someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

• an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it

• independent in behavior or thought

• any red eruption of the skin

• a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences

• imprudently incurring risk

• marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences

• marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences

• characterized by careless unconcern

• characterized by violent emotions or behavior

• (of the elements) as if showing violent anger

• difficult to solve or alleviate

• incapable of being controlled

• incapable of being controlled or managed

• impossible to repress or control

• not being under control; out of control

• difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape

• hard to control

• difficult to solve or alleviate

• incapable of being controlled or managed

• not capable of being foretold

• unknown in advance

• not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals

• noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

• unwilling to submit to authority

• incapable of being controlled

• evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures

• a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor

• liable to lead to sudden change or violence

• marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments

• tending to vary often or widely

• an unpredictable factor

• a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it