intractable
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
intractable
adj 1: not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an
intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most
intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal" [ant:
{manipulable}, {tractable}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Intractable \In*tract"a*ble\, a. [L. intractabilis: cf. F.
intraitable, formerly also intractable. See {In-} not, and
{Tractable}.]
Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed;
indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent;
stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.
Syn: Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross;
unmanageable; unruly; headstrong; violent; ungovernable;
unteachable. -- {In*tract"a*ble*ness}, n. --
{In*tract"a*bly}, adv.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "intractable":
adamant, adamantine, beyond control, breachy, bullheaded,
contumacious, defiant, fractious, headstrong, immovable, immutable,
incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, inductile, inelastic,
inextensible, inextensile, inextensional, inflexible,
insubordinate, insuppressible, intractile, intransigent,
irrepressible, irresilient, mulish, noncooperating, noncooperative,
nonelastic, nonstretchable, obstreperous, out of hand,
pertinacious, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant,
resisting, restive, self-willed, shrewish, stubborn, tough,
unalterable, unbending, unbiddable, uncompliant, uncontrollable,
uncooperative, undisciplined, unextendible, unextensible,
unflexible, ungiving, ungovernable, unlimber, unmalleable,
unmanageable, unmoldable, unpliable, unpliant, unruly,
unsubmissive, untractable, unyielding, wild, willful
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