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Synonyms for intractable
ɪnˈtræk tə bəlin·tractable

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  1. 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, unyielding

    Antonyms:
    amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, dutiful, gentle, irresolute, obedient, pliable, pliant, submissive, teachable, tractable, undecided, wavering, yielding

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. intractableadjective

    not tractable; difficult to manage or mold

    "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal"

    Antonyms:
    tamable, docile, ductile, manipulable, teachable, tameable, tractable, malleable

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#1928difficult
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#9645persistent
#20086intricate
#24054stubborn
#27763refractory
#34802irreducible
#37818insoluble
#40751uncontrollable
#42074inflexible
#42291opinionated
#42813heady
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#43680resolute
#48883thorny
#49224immovable
#50489dogged
#51141insurmountable
#66176obstinate
#66995headstrong
#68031knotty
#72731indomitable
#77339unflinching
#77553unyielding
#109566unsolvable
#139798unconquerable
#145234inextricable
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#273579irresolvable
#282433contumacious

How to use intractable in a sentence?

  1. Karen MacNeil:

    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.

  2. Gary Ross:

    The aforementioned problems look intractable.

  3. Nancy Hogshead-Makar:

    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.

  4. Matt Summers:

    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.

  5. Jared Kushner:

    The Office of American Innovation will bring a creative and strategic approach to many critical issues and intractable problems that affect Americans’ quality of life, we have an opportunity to identify and implement solutions by combining internal resources with the private sector’s innovation and creativity, enabling the federal government to better serve Americans.


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