Intractable Definition

ĭn-trăktə-bəl
adjective
Not tractable.
Webster's New World
Difficult to manage, deal with, or change to an acceptable condition.
An intractable conflict; an intractable dilemma.
American Heritage
Difficult to alleviate, remedy, or cure.
Intractable pain; intractable depression.
American Heritage
Difficult to persuade or keep under control, as in behavior.
American Heritage
Difficult to mold or manipulate.
Intractable materials.
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Intractable Sentence Examples

  • All attempts to arrange a truce between the two intractable conquerors were in vain.

  • Though not gratuitously aggressive, they are highly intractable, and have given great trouble to the Chinese authorities.

  • Attacks of sciatica are often attended with great suffering, and are apt to be very intractable to treatment.

  • Halleck, Lincoln and Stanton, the intractable, if energetic, war secretary, now stood aside, and the efforts of the whole vast army were to be directed and co-ordinated by one supreme military authority.

  • Thus far, North Korea has proved intractable on the issue.

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