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Synonyms for Intractable
ɪnˈtræk tə bəlin·tractable
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
intractable
The headstrong person is not to be stopped in his own course of action, while the obstinate and stubborn is not to be driven to another's way. The headstrong act; the obstinate and stubborn may simply refuse to stir. The most amiable person may be obstinate on some one point; the stubborn person is for the most part habitually so; we speak of obstinate determination, stubborn resistance. Stubborn is the term most frequently applied to the lower animals and inanimate things. Refractory implies more activity of resistance; the stubborn horse balks; the refractory animal plunges, rears, and kicks; metals that resist ordinary processes of reduction are termed refractory. One is obdurate who adheres to his purpose in spite of appeals that would move any tender-hearted or right-minded person. Contumacious refers to a proud and insolent defiance of authority, as of the summons of a court. Pertinacious demand is contrasted with obstinate refusal. The unyielding conduct which we approve we call decided, firm, inflexible, resolute; that which we condemn we are apt to term headstrong, obstinate, stubborn. Compare PERVERSE.
Synonyms:
contumacious, decided, determined, dogged, firm, fixed, headstrong, heady, immovable, indomitable, inflexible, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, refractory, resolute, resolved, stubborn, unconquerable, unflinching, unyieldingAntonyms:
amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, dutiful, gentle, irresolute, obedient, pliable, pliant, submissive, teachable, tractable, undecided, wavering, yielding
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
intractableadjective
Synonyms:
stubborn, obstinate, perverse, refractory, dogged, mulish, pig-headed, unruly, headstrong, unmanageable, ungovernable, indocile, obdurate, cross-grained, wilful, inflexible, unyielding, contumacious, cantankerous
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "intractable":
insoluble, inextricable, insurmountable, thorny, irreducible, refractory, knotty, difficult, unsolvable, intricate, uncontrollable, irresolvable, persistent
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1672 | fixed | |
#1854 | firm | |
#1928 | difficult | |
#2328 | determined | |
#2414 | decided | |
#5955 | resolved | |
#9645 | persistent | |
#20086 | intricate | |
#24054 | stubborn | |
#27763 | refractory | |
#34802 | irreducible | |
#37818 | insoluble | |
#40751 | uncontrollable | |
#42074 | inflexible | |
#42291 | opinionated | |
#42813 | heady | |
#42831 | intractable | |
#43680 | resolute | |
#48883 | thorny | |
#49224 | immovable | |
#50489 | dogged | |
#51141 | insurmountable | |
#66176 | obstinate | |
#66995 | headstrong | |
#68031 | knotty | |
#72731 | indomitable | |
#77339 | unflinching | |
#77553 | unyielding | |
#109566 | unsolvable | |
#139798 | unconquerable | |
#145234 | inextricable | |
#164509 | obdurate | |
#273579 | irresolvable | |
#282433 | contumacious |
How to use Intractable in a sentence?
The new NCAA policy sounds a lot like the old one, the board hasn't resolved the intractable balancing between fairness, playing safety and inclusion. They failed women by not prioritizing fairness.
With continual efforts to make improvements, we hope that this means that public health practitioners and policymakers, no matter where they’re from, what their political views might be, or what their personal ideas are, this is something we can come together on because this is an actionable place where we can make a difference in our obesity epidemic, which has felt so just intractable and so difficult to overcome, now, we can think of this not as a foregone conclusion, we can make a difference.
The president was rightly focused on how do we move forward from what may be simply an intractable disagreement at this point.
This is a fundamental change in how our city contends with a situation that has been intractable for so many years.
Secretary Kerry's wrong about the facts, wrong about the law, and sadly Secretary Kerry's been wrong about how to use diplomacy to keep America safe. Secretary Kerry helped negotiate a nuclear agreement that worked to solve an intractable problem. The world supported it then and supports it still. We'd hope the President would focus on solving foreign policy problems for America instead of attacking his predecessors for theater.
Translations for Intractable
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- مستعصية على الحلArabic
- nezvladatelnýCzech
- hartnäckigGerman
- intratableSpanish
- رام نشدنیPersian
- uppiniskainen, hankalaFinnish
- intraitableFrench
- असभ्यHindi
- intrattabileItalian
- בלתי נסבלHebrew
- onhandelbaarDutch
- trudnyPolish
- intratávelPortuguese
- intratabilRomanian
- intraktabilan, nesavladivSerbo-Croatian
- intractableSwedish
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