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Synonyms for intractable
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Princeton's WordNet
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
intractable(a.)
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?
Wine in the U.S. in general is expensive. It’s also true of California. In many cases you can get an old world version for much less. That’s a somewhat intractable problem…It’s just expensive to do business in the United States.
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.
There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again.
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