intractable
21intractable — Synonyms and related words: adamant, adamantine, beyond control, breachy, bullheaded, contumacious, defiant, fractious, headstrong, immovable, immutable, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, inductile, inelastic, inextensible, inextensile,… …
22intractable — in|trac|ta|ble Mot Pla Adjectiu invariable …
23intractable — in·trac·ta·ble || ɪn træktÉ™bl adj. inflexible, stubborn, unyielding, ungovernable, rebellious …
24intractable — [ɪn traktəb(ə)l] adjective hard to control or deal with. ↘(of a person) difficult or stubborn. Derivatives intractability noun intractableness noun intractably adverb …
25intractable — a. Stubborn, obstinate, perverse, refractory, dogged, headstrong, unmanageable, ungovernable, indocile, obdurate, cross grained, wilful, inflexible, unyielding, contumacious, cantankerous, froward, unruly, pig headed, mulish …
26intractable — adj 1. indocile, unsubmissive, uncompliant, incompliant, uncooperative, unconforming, nonconforming; stubborn, obstinate, pervicacious, pig headed, mulish, obdurate, headstrong, willful, strong willed, wayward, wrong headed; cross grained,… …
27intractable — in·tractable …
28intractable — [ɪnˈtræktəb(ə)l] adj formal very difficult or impossible to deal with …
29intractable — adj. 1 hard to control or deal with. 2 difficult, stubborn. Derivatives: intractability n. intractableness n. intractably adv. Etymology: L intractabilis (as IN (1), TRACTABLE) …
30Intractableness — 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;… …