Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Difficult to manage, deal with, or change to an acceptable condition.
- adjective Difficult to alleviate, remedy, or cure.
- adjective Difficult to persuade or keep under control, as in behavior: synonym: obstinate.
- adjective Difficult to mold or manipulate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not tractable or to be drawn or guided by persuasion; uncontrollable.
- Not to be brought into the desired order or condition; unmanageable; resisting effort: as, an intractable disposition; an intractable subject for literary treatment.
- Synonyms Stubborn, Refractory, etc. (see
obstinate ); unruly, unmanageable, ungovernable, wilful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
tractable or to be drawn or guided bypersuasion ; not easily governed, managed, or directed;uncontrollable ;incurable ;violent ;stubborn ;obstinate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not tractable; difficult to manage or mold
Etymologies
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Examples
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The story is already stale and yet it continues to remain intractable, organizationally and professionally, for most media organizations.
Peter Schwartz: Black Swan Imbroglio: The Crisis of Journalism and Control of the Stack Peter Schwartz 2010
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The story is already stale and yet it continues to remain intractable, organizationally and professionally, for most media organizations.
Peter Schwartz: Black Swan Imbroglio: The Crisis of Journalism and Control of the Stack Peter Schwartz 2010
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So any perception by conservatives that progressives are intractable is itself only further demonstration of THEIR absolute unwillingness to engage in anything which might, by even the most reckless stretch of the imagination, ever be mistaken for reasoned discourse or genuine political interchange.
Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee. 2010
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This pattern has developed into a state that conflict scholars label intractable and that mathematicians call an attractor: the Israel-Palestinian conflict has thus become an intractable attractor.
Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace PhD Peter T. Coleman 2011
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The story is already stale and yet it continues to remain intractable, organizationally and professionally, for most media organizations.
Peter Schwartz: Black Swan Imbroglio: The Crisis of Journalism and Control of the Stack Peter Schwartz 2010
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This pattern has developed into a state that conflict scholars label intractable and that mathematicians call an attractor: the Israel-Palestinian conflict has thus become an intractable attractor.
Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace PhD Peter T. Coleman 2011
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This society does not deal well with long-term intractable problems of any kind.
Re: Autism 2009
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If they last longer than a month, they are termed intractable.
NYT > Home Page M.D. By LISA SANDERS 2011
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If they last longer than a month, they are termed intractable.
NYT > Home Page M.D. By LISA SANDERS 2011
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If they last longer than a month, they are termed intractable.
NYT > Home Page M.D. By LISA SANDERS 2011
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