Definition for Intractable:

• not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; " an intractable disposition"; " intractable pain"; " the most intractable issue of our era"; " intractable metal"

Synonyms for Intractable:

• adj.

  •deaf (adjective)
  • self-willed.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • Incompliant,
  • ungovernable,
  • hard-line,
  • unmanageable,
  • awkward,
  • bull-headed,
  • locked,
  • indomitable,
  • uncooperative,
  • unyielding,
  • Unpliable,
  • immovable,
  • recalcitrant,
  • obstinate,
  • undisciplined,
  • wayward,
  • tough,
  • self-willed,
  • stubborn,
  • fractious,
  • unaccommodating,
  • unruly,
  • wild,
  • incurable,
  • mulish,
  • perverse,
  • intransigent,
  • resolute,
  • pat,
  • unbending,
  • tenacious,
  • willful,
  • refractory,
  • uncompromising,
  • tough nut,
  • contrary,
  • Pig-headed,
  • indocile,
  • headstrong,
  • pertinacious,
  • insoluble,
  • obdurate,
  • cantankerous.
  •disobedient (adjective)
  • mutinous,
  • contrary,
  • nonconformist,
  • insubordinate,
  • unmanageable,
  • subversive,
  • ungovernable,
  • recalcitrant,
  • Misbehaving,
  • undisciplined,
  • seditious,
  • non-compliant,
  • mischievous,
  • treacherous,
  • unruly,
  • Disregardful,
  • rebellious,
  • disobedient,
  • disloyal,
  • defiant,
  • traitorous,
  • out of control,
  • wayward,
  • factious,
  • treasonous,
  • Disobeying,
  • anarchistic.
  •fractious (adjective)
  • fractious.
  •insurmountable (adjective)
  • unconquerable.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • willful,
  • obstinate,
  • mulish,
  • refractory.
  •pigheaded (adjective)
  • stiff-necked.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • grim.
  •uncontrollable (adjective)
  • Insuppressible,
  • Unrestrainable,
  • irrepressible.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • deaf.

• n.

  •
  • conservative,
  • intolerant,
  • rigid,
  • bloody-minded,
  • narrow,
  • narrow-minded,
  • closed.
  •
  • wild,
  • order,
  • intolerable,
  • disorderly,
  • delicate,
  • peace,
  • lawless,
  • control,
  • thorny,
  • trying,
  • obstreperous,
  • resist,
  • impossible,
  • difficult,
  • testing,
  • indocile,
  • critical,
  • awkward,
  • untoward,
  • fractious.
  •intractable (noun)
  • recalcitrant,
  • unmalleable,
  • refractory,
  • balky,
  • unmanageable,
  • balking,
  • stubborn,
  • uncontrollable.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • insuperable,
  • intolerable,
  • indocile,
  • straitened,
  • insupportable.
  •
  • obstreperous,
  • unwieldy,
  • severe,
  • insoluble,
  • Fiendish,
  • impossible,
  • testing,
  • thorny.
  •
  • hypersensitive,
  • chronic,
  • inaccessible,
  • unrelenting.
  •
  • disorderly,
  • lawless.
  •
  • critical.
  •
  • delicate,
  • wild.
  •
  • gray.
  •backward
  • unwilling.
  •incurable
  • incorrigible.
  •relentless
  • remorseless.
  •Other relevant words:
  • icy,
  • narrow-minded,
  • persistent,
  • order,
  • acutely,
  • awkward,
  • simply,
  • hard,
  • unduly,
  • unrestricted,
  • defy,
  • resolute,
  • severely,
  • critical,
  • unmerciful,
  • insensible,
  • disgracefully,
  • extraordinarily,
  • disappoint,
  • fierce,
  • contravene,
  • resistant,
  • unregulated,
  • terrifically,
  • straitened,
  • hardbitten,
  • obdurate,
  • tenacious,
  • unsparing,
  • cantankerous,
  • astonishingly,
  • noisy,
  • cumbersomeness,
  • persevering,
  • colossal,
  • obstinate,
  • thoroughly,
  • derelict,
  • solid,
  • tough,
  • bear,
  • fixed,
  • obstreperous,
  • reactionary,
  • determined,
  • vehement,
  • disobey,
  • furious,
  • pertinacious,
  • endure,
  • unmalleable,
  • hard-nosed,
  • particularly,
  • regional,
  • petulant,
  • immovable,
  • Resisting,
  • Ungiving,
  • Prepossessed,
  • exceedingly,
  • obstructive,
  • unflinching,
  • indomitable,
  • remarkably,
  • intricate,
  • maladroitness,
  • monstrously,
  • profusely,
  • deny,
  • fiercely,
  • testing,
  • counterbalance,
  • inconvenience,
  • tangled,
  • unrestrained,
  • unrelieved,
  • undo,
  • strict,
  • ineptness,
  • stubborn,
  • invade,
  • unchanging,
  • very much,
  • frigid,
  • biased,
  • ever so,
  • raging,
  • control,
  • intensely,
  • irrepressible,
  • severe,
  • wilful,
  • undeviating,
  • frenzied,
  • unregenerate,
  • most,
  • brutal,
  • stiff-necked,
  • tumultuous,
  • deeply,
  • out of hand,
  • noncompliant,
  • incurable,
  • pitiless,
  • mightily,
  • inveterate,
  • difficult,
  • resist,
  • trying,
  • restricted,
  • strongly,
  • magisterial,
  • confront,
  • unyielding,
  • Incompliant,
  • conservative,
  • shamefully,
  • unkind,
  • giant,
  • tough nut,
  • undutiful,
  • remorseless,
  • fractious,
  • rebel,
  • abundantly,
  • uncompromising,
  • characterless,
  • uncomplying,
  • plaguy,
  • Breachy,
  • invariable,
  • disagree,
  • rigorous,
  • Untractable,
  • ill-behaved,
  • Restiff,
  • violent,
  • huge,
  • unvarying,
  • one-sided,
  • limited,
  • perfectly,
  • isolated,
  • massive,
  • unwieldiness,
  • mulish,
  • uncultured,
  • provincial,
  • contumacious,
  • encroach,
  • strong-willed,
  • gray,
  • hidebound,
  • Hard-hearted,
  • pat,
  • labyrinthine,
  • unsympathetic,
  • villainous,
  • hard-boiled,
  • clumsiness,
  • habitual,
  • wrong-headed,
  • indocile,
  • desperate,
  • adamantine,
  • stormy,
  • pigheaded,
  • Invious,
  • lawless,
  • fantastically,
  • uniform,
  • sot,
  • slowness,
  • vexatious,
  • undifferentiated,
  • unwieldy,
  • poorly,
  • unpersuadable,
  • unswerving,
  • uncompassionate,
  • forceful,
  • local,
  • single-minded,
  • positive,
  • Humorsome,
  • surpassingly,
  • truly,
  • invulnerable,
  • stolid,
  • conventional,
  • unshackled,
  • aggressive,
  • stern,
  • savage,
  • completely,
  • entirely,
  • inalterable,
  • Nonelastic,
  • controvert,
  • unshakeable,
  • Intractile,
  • thorny,
  • naughty,
  • pathless,
  • impervious,
  • unbending,
  • bloody-minded,
  • delicate,
  • withstand,
  • insuperable,
  • demanding,
  • fidgety,
  • callous,
  • utterly,
  • firm,
  • problem,
  • Stoney,
  • illiberal,
  • Fiendish,
  • uncompliant,
  • ineptitude,
  • especially,
  • rampageous,
  • restive,
  • incorrigible,
  • adamant,
  • exacting,
  • Incontrollable,
  • sorely,
  • Crossgrained,
  • contradict,
  • inaccessible,
  • close-minded,
  • stony,
  • bad,
  • boisterous,
  • awfully,
  • unconquerable,
  • unchangeable,
  • gravely,
  • harsh,
  • uproarious,
  • frightfully,
  • immensely,
  • complicated,
  • crotchety,
  • recusant,
  • untrammelled,
  • despotic,
  • rigid,
  • partial,
  • uncommonly,
  • dogged,
  • inured,
  • rugged,
  • froward,
  • cool,
  • really,
  • tempestuous,
  • unbridled,
  • refractory,
  • dare,
  • counteract,
  • dictatorial,
  • exceptionally,
  • beyond control,
  • go against,
  • unsophisticated,
  • unchecked,
  • very,
  • unalterable,
  • heartless,
  • unrelenting,
  • unusually,
  • non-compliant,
  • infringe,
  • untamed,
  • cross-grained,
  • merciless,
  • substantially,
  • impinge,
  • appallingly,
  • impracticable,
  • gigantic,
  • short-sighted,
  • heavily,
  • thick-skinned,
  • resolved,
  • turbulent,
  • stiff-backed,
  • stiff,
  • enormously,
  • indeed,
  • dreadfully,
  • highly,
  • insensitive,
  • cold,
  • unwilling,
  • angry,
  • stiffness,
  • implacable,
  • enormous,
  • knotted,
  • Stony-hearted,
  • uncooperative,
  • opinionated,
  • bigoted,
  • cussed,
  • unstoppable,
  • unappeasable,
  • steely,
  • stand,
  • antagonize,
  • resistive,
  • ungoverned,
  • excessively,
  • intolerable,
  • Rhadamanthine,
  • unwavering,
  • Unpliable,
  • lively,
  • unsubmissive,
  • madly,
  • locked,
  • grim,
  • hypersensitive,
  • unpredictable,
  • inextensible,
  • indurate,
  • differ,
  • awesomely,
  • badly,
  • insular,
  • untoward,
  • immutable,
  • infatuated,
  • Cold-hearted,
  • peace,
  • willful,
  • unadaptable,
  • ruthless,
  • also,
  • unshakable,
  • indifferent,
  • Unlimber,
  • unresponsive,
  • rowdy,
  • trackless,
  • Insuppressible,
  • unaccommodating,
  • steadfast,
  • insupportable,
  • unmoved,
  • fearfully,
  • wild,
  • rogue,
  • frustrate,
  • heady,
  • Inductile,
  • prejudiced,
  • uncultivated,
  • considerably,
  • relentless,
  • inflexible,
  • good deal,
  • violently,
  • deaf,
  • cruel,
  • balking,
  • free,
  • mortally,
  • decisively,
  • self-willed,
  • unfettered,
  • Unrestrainable,
  • inelastic,
  • bull-headed,
  • seriously,
  • Pig-headed,
  • rusty,
  • hostile,
  • unforgiving,
  • monumental,
  • impenetrable,
  • untamable,
  • closed,
  • oppressive,
  • disturbed,
  • hard-line,
  • Hard-mouthed,
  • intransigent,
  • impossible,
  • set,
  • grossly,
  • monolithic,
  • decidedly,
  • cramped,
  • bullheaded,
  • profoundly,
  • noncooperative,
  • uncaring,
  • tyrannical,
  • troublesome,
  • independent,
  • quite,
  • convoluted,
  • arbitrary,
  • sharply,
  • tremendously,
  • athwart,
  • badly behaved,
  • sinful,
  • unvaried,
  • wicked,
  • maladjusted,
  • decided,
  • uncontrolled,
  • dearly,
  • cross,
  • strait-laced,
  • hopeless,
  • unsentimental,
  • Sinistrous,
  • greatly,
  • Unflexible,
  • impetuous,
  • iron,
  • brutish,
  • shrewish,
  • contend,
  • inexorable,
  • inhuman,
  • unworldly,
  • fully,
  • headstrong,
  • parochial,
  • wrongheaded,
  • knotty,
  • Exceptious,
  • terribly,
  • rarely,
  • unfeeling,
  • amazingly,
  • break,
  • narrow,
  • petty,
  • Unpliant,
  • hardened,
  • uncontrollable,
  • extremely,
  • incredibly,
  • delinquent,
  • featureless,
  • hugely,
  • unconventional,
  • dogmatic,
  • balky,
  • dispassionate,
  • intolerant,
  • totally,
  • desperately,
  • heartily,
  • vastly,
  • oppose,
  • imposing,
  • infinitely,
  • Irresilient,
  • chronic,
  • awkwardness,
  • riotous,
  • too,
  • disorderly,
  • chilly,
  • widely,
  • remiss,
  • perverse,
  • unmoving,
  • insoluble.

Antonyms for Intractable:

• adj.

  • all
    tractable.
  • difficult
    manageable, willing.
  • Other antonyms:
    placable, accepting, controllable, obliging, Trainable, mannerly, yielding, reasonable, decorous, receptive, obsequious, responsive, manipulable, polite, undecided, courteous, proper, complaisant, cooperative, willing, orderly, slavish, irresolute, gentle, subservient, persuadable, agreeable, pliant, wavering, temperate, dutiful, kowtowing, well-bred, ruly, governable, respectful, servile, deferential, disciplined, amiable.