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intractable
adjective as in difficult
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang-tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
Example Sentences
It’s an impossible task to expect a documentary to solve one of the most enduring, complicated and seemingly intractable conflicts in the world.
“We could actually have a molecule to finally treat the underlying disorder that puts patients at risk for addiction and keeps them locked in to an intractable cycle of disease.”
This also isn't the first time Trump has viewed a seemingly intractable foreign policy situation as an exciting business opportunity.
Today was one of very few days, while covering this intractable conflict, that I've seen so many happy faces among both Palestinians and Israelis.
I moved to the U.K. because American problems like gun violence and healthcare access seemed intractable.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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