What is another word for intractable?
Pronunciation:
[ ɪntɹˈaktəbə͡l], [ ɪntɹˈaktəbəl], [ ɪ_n_t_ɹ_ˈa_k_t_ə_b_əl]
Related words: intractable graphs, intractable search, intractable problem, intractable network
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Similar words for intractable:
- all (adjective)
- balky (adjective)
- contrary (adjective)
- contumacious (adjective)
- deaf (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- disobedient (adjective)
- fractious (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- hard-nosed/hardheaded (adjective)
- hardheaded (adjective)
- headstrong (adjective)
- implacable (adjective)
- inalterable (adjective)
- incompliant (adjective)
- incorrigible (adjective)
- indocile (adjective)
- inflexible (adjective)
- insubordinate (adjective)
- insurmountable (adjective)
- mulish (adjective)
- naughty (adjective)
- obstinate (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- pig-headed (adjective)
- rebellious (adjective)
- recalcitrant (adjective)
- refractory (adjective)
- stiff (adjective)
- stubborn (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- troublesome (adjective)
- unbendable (adjective)
- unbending (adjective)
- uncompliant (adjective)
- unconquerable (adjective)
- uncontrollable (adjective)
- ungovernable (adjective)
- unruly (adjective)
- untoward (adjective)
- unyielding (adjective)
- wayward (adjective)
- balking (noun)
- intractable (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Intractable:
adj.
• all (adjective) • balky (adjective)- immovable,
- in tractable,
- more negativistic,
- un-predictable,
- in-disposed,
- un-manageable,
- un predictable,
- most negativistic,
- in disposed,
- un manageable,
- in-tractable.
- more dissentient,
- nonconformist,
- most opposed,
- more recusant,
- in consistent,
- anti-thetical,
- most anti,
- non conformist,
- most contrariant,
- more reverse,
- most dissentient,
- more paradoxical,
- Non-conforming,
- in-consistent,
- anti thetical,
- non conforming,
- most clashing,
- most recusant,
- most paradoxical,
- most reverse,
- more clashing,
- re verse,
- re-verse,
- more anti,
- dis sentient,
- anti pathetic,
- more wrongheaded,
- most wrongheaded,
- more contrariant,
- anti-pathetic,
- dis-sentient.
- oafish,
- uncompromising,
- cantankerous,
- intransigent,
- wayward,
- irritable,
- undisciplined,
- hang tough,
- pertinacious,
- resolute,
- unaccommodating,
- pat,
- indomitable,
- incurable,
- tenacious,
- locked,
- bearish,
- hard to please,
- uncooperative,
- hard-line,
- unamenable,
- mulish,
- bull-headed.
- seditious,
- mutinous,
- mischievous,
- defiant,
- traitorous,
- Disobeying,
- nonobservant,
- out of control,
- non-compliant,
- treacherous,
- disloyal,
- Disregardful,
- factious,
- treasonous,
- subversive,
- Misbehaving.
- un-relenting,
- most foreboding,
- more scowling,
- in exorable,
- fore boding,
- most glowering,
- more splenetic,
- grisly,
- re solute,
- re-solute,
- most crabbed,
- most scowling,
- more foreboding,
- fore-boding,
- most splenetic,
- more glowering,
- splenetic,
- forbidding,
- un relenting,
- in-exorable.
- more tough nut,
- hard boiled,
- hard nosed,
- hard-nosed,
- most tough nut,
- more toughnut,
- most toughnut,
- most unsentimental,
- toughnut,
- more tough-nut,
- un sentimental,
- most hardheaded,
- most tough-nut,
- more hard nosed,
- levelheaded,
- un-sentimental,
- more unsentimental.
- more murder,
- more strongminded,
- more lockedin,
- lockedin,
- most locked in,
- strong minded,
- most murder,
- head strong,
- more strong minded,
- most lockedin,
- most strong-minded,
- most strongminded,
- more strong-minded,
- mulest,
- strongminded,
- most strong minded,
- muler,
- more locked in,
- most locked-in,
- hardshell,
- more locked-in.
- unforgiving,
- remorseless,
- more ironfisted,
- un appeasable,
- un-compromising,
- un flinching,
- most ironfisted,
- un-forgiving,
- un-appeasable,
- un compromising,
- un-flinching,
- un forgiving.
- most unswayable,
- more unadaptable,
- un-swayable,
- set one's ways,
- set ways,
- Unswayable,
- un adaptable,
- dyed in the wool,
- set in ones ways,
- set ones ways,
- in flexible,
- stand one ground,
- in-flexible,
- steeliest,
- set in ways,
- single minded,
- steelier,
- stand ones ground,
- hard and fast,
- set in one ways,
- more unswayable,
- set one ways,
- most unadaptable,
- un-changeable,
- un swayable,
- stand ground,
- un-adaptable,
- un changeable.
- more dissentious,
- un complying,
- more uncomplying,
- in-subordinate,
- un-complying,
- in subordinate,
- most dissentious,
- most uncomplying.
- most exasperating,
- teasing,
- more rascally,
- more exasperating,
- in decorous,
- ex asperating,
- impish,
- most rascally,
- ex-asperating,
- in-decorous.
- Impliable,
- inalterable,
- die hard,
- cross-grained,
- non-conformist,
- paradoxical,
- unyielding,
- uncontrollable,
- incorrigible,
- misfortunate,
- locked-in,
- disobedient,
- insubordinate,
- Contrariant,
- mule,
- implacable,
- rascally,
- unsentimental,
- Infestive,
- recalcitrant,
- hold ground,
- dissentient,
- dead set on,
- hard-shelled,
- pigheaded,
- tough,
- uncomplying,
- anarchistic,
- Unpliable,
- set in one's ways,
- singleminded,
- unbending,
- out of line,
- unbendable,
- insubmissive,
- untoward,
- troublesome,
- wrongheaded,
- hard line,
- ruffianly,
- hard shell,
- Pig-headed,
- willful,
- Unflexible,
- Crossgrained,
- contrary,
- indocile,
- hard as nails,
- difficult,
- tough-nut,
- balky,
- rebellious,
- set in stone,
- inflexible,
- tough nut,
- badly behaved,
- locked in,
- ungovernable,
- perverse,
- hard core,
- stand one's ground,
- stiff,
- hardbitten,
- head-strong,
- strong-minded,
- undisciplinable,
- negativistic,
- hold the fort,
- recusant,
- naughty,
- sticking to one's guns,
- brassbound,
- do or die,
- dissentious,
- ironfisted,
- grim,
- hardnosed,
- uncompliant,
- Incompliant,
- steely,
- unadaptable,
- contumacious,
- anti,
- hardboiled.
- bad tempered,
- de generate,
- un healthiest,
- un-reasonable,
- de-generate,
- un-healthy,
- un-healthiest,
- un healthy,
- badtempered,
- un reasonable,
- un healthier.
- dis loyal,
- most insurrectionary,
- individualistic,
- most attacking,
- most anarchistic,
- more rioting,
- dis-loyal,
- more sabotaging,
- more anarchistic,
- most rioting,
- more insurrectionary,
- most sabotaging,
- more attacking.
- more insubmissive,
- un willing,
- more withstanding,
- un disciplinable,
- un-disciplinable,
- most withstanding,
- un-willing,
- with standing,
- most insubmissive,
- more undisciplinable,
- in submissive,
- most undisciplinable,
- with-standing,
- in-submissive.
- un easy,
- most unrelaxed,
- un easier,
- unrelaxed,
- un relaxed,
- un gainliest,
- un-easiest,
- un-gainly,
- un-graceful,
- un gainlier,
- un-natural,
- un graceful,
- un-easier,
- un easiest,
- more unrelaxed,
- un-relaxed,
- un gainly.
- hardshelled,
- more hard shelled,
- more hardshelled,
- hardline,
- hard bitten,
- more hard-shelled,
- most hardshelled,
- ex acting,
- most hard shelled,
- more ruffianly,
- ex-acting,
- most hard-shelled,
- up hill,
- no piece of cake,
- hard shelled,
- up-hill,
- most ruffianly,
- no piece cake.
- most infestive,
- dis quieting,
- most harassing,
- in-festive,
- more harassing,
- more vexing,
- in-convenient,
- most vexing,
- dis-quieting,
- in convenient,
- up-setting,
- in festive,
- more infestive,
- up setting,
- Harassing.
- re-served,
- hold line,
- sticking one's guns,
- in elastic,
- standing ground,
- more unflexible,
- most unflexible,
- do die,
- hold ones ground,
- up tight,
- un flexible,
- sticking one guns,
- in-elastic,
- sticking guns,
- standing one's ground,
- un-bending,
- standing one ground,
- sticking ones guns,
- up-tight,
- sticking to guns,
- set stone,
- un bending,
- sticking to one guns,
- sticking to ones guns,
- un-flexible,
- hold fort,
- re served,
- standing ones ground,
- hold one ground.
- unpliabler,
- un-favorable,
- un pliable,
- un happiest,
- un-happy,
- un luckiest,
- un propitious,
- un pliablest,
- un happier,
- un-fortunate,
- un timelier,
- un-timely,
- mis-fortunate,
- mis fortunate,
- more misfortunate,
- in-opportune,
- un-luckier,
- in auspicious,
- un timeliest,
- un-timeliest,
- un timely,
- ill starred,
- un pliabler,
- un-lucky,
- most misfortunate,
- un favorable,
- starcrossed,
- in-auspicious,
- un-pliabler,
- star crossed,
- un-pliable,
- in opportune,
- un-pliablest,
- Star-crossed,
- un lucky,
- un fortunate,
- un happy,
- illstarred,
- unpliablest,
- un luckier,
- un-timelier.
n.
• balking (noun) • intractable (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)- toughen,
- formidable,
- awkwardly,
- obdurate,
- exacting,
- fractious,
- easy,
- despair,
- ambitious,
- sensitive,
- demanding,
- testing,
- awkward,
- wearying,
- laboured,
- hot,
- the Holy Grail,
- irreconcilable,
- unwilling,
- gruelling,
- begin,
- shitty,
- tortured,
- production,
- insupportable,
- knackering,
- heavy going,
- knotty,
- unsolved,
- tricky,
- too,
- fiddly,
- onerous,
- strenuous,
- painstaking,
- fierce,
- wild,
- insurmountable,
- murder,
- killing,
- rigorous,
- taxing,
- house,
- sensitivity,
- uphill,
- unruly,
- hard going,
- tax,
- exhausting,
- severe,
- challenging,
- headstrong,
- much,
- rare,
- devilish,
- hard-fought,
- jump,
- Challenged,
- obstinate,
- murky,
- another,
- wearing,
- unmanageable,
- high-pressure,
- sticky,
- thorny,
- challenge,
- stern,
- unwieldy,
- shag,
- touchy,
- ticklish,
- labour-intensive,
- tiring,
- picnic,
- schlep,
- shattering,
- impossible,
- insoluble,
- devil,
- joke,
- Fatiguing,
- severely,
- hard,
- vexed,
- hard-won,
- refractory,
- advanced,
- burdensome,
- work,
- push,
- blood,
- unplayable,
- problematic,
- herculean,
- backbreaking,
- arduous,
- Fiendish,
- punishing,
- unresolved,
- stubborn,
- laborious.
Other synonyms:
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- obstreperous.
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- gray.
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- heavy.
- greatly,
- hidebound,
- extraordinarily,
- steadfast,
- uniform,
- merciless,
- terrifically,
- fidgety,
- particularly,
- contend,
- decided,
- stiff-necked,
- Ungiving,
- break,
- indeed,
- unmerciful,
- beyond control,
- parochial,
- Cold-hearted,
- biased,
- regional,
- very,
- encroach,
- madly,
- local,
- sinful,
- undo,
- monstrously,
- independent,
- impracticable,
- unwieldiness,
- furious,
- disturbed,
- uncommonly,
- petulant,
- unswerving,
- Unlimber,
- rugged,
- derelict,
- excessively,
- deeply,
- decidedly,
- Irresilient,
- magisterial,
- contradict,
- disgracefully,
- petty,
- free,
- out of hand,
- substantially,
- wicked,
- unrestrained,
- completely,
- stony,
- featureless,
- profoundly,
- thick-skinned,
- unresponsive,
- harsh,
- unstoppable,
- antagonize,
- cussed,
- sorely,
- widely,
- remarkably,
- intricate,
- contravene,
- athwart,
- awkwardness,
- despotic,
- positive,
- Hard-hearted,
- quite,
- unshakable,
- rarely,
- strong-willed,
- Sinistrous,
- strongly,
- infringe,
- hopeless,
- wrong-headed,
- firm,
- gigantic,
- persevering,
- entirely,
- fiercely,
- surpassingly,
- monumental,
- endure,
- abundantly,
- desperate,
- intensely,
- inextensible,
- habitual,
- knotted,
- infinitely,
- frightfully,
- limited,
- invulnerable,
- incredibly,
- stiffness,
- illiberal,
- highly,
- untamable,
- cross,
- ineptitude,
- withstand,
- cold,
- problem,
- sharply,
- also,
- defy,
- hard-boiled,
- oppose,
- strict,
- noisy,
- inextensional,
- insular,
- fearfully,
- inconvenience,
- heady,
- inured,
- iron,
- Incontrollable,
- rebel,
- colossal,
- stormy,
- dogged,
- dare,
- unflinching,
- Unrestrainable,
- unkind,
- cumbersomeness,
- unchangeable,
- close-minded,
- unpersuadable,
- partial,
- one-sided,
- heartily,
- gravely,
- insensible,
- bad,
- utterly,
- sot,
- giant,
- restricted,
- riotous,
- mortally,
- monolithic,
- unmoved,
- tempestuous,
- Untractable,
- brutal,
- uncultured,
- violently,
- solid,
- impervious,
- unshackled,
- chilly,
- disappoint,
- grossly,
- Insuppressible,
- unduly,
- unbridled,
- unmoving,
- huge,
- impinge,
- set,
- undutiful,
- inhuman,
- unvaried,
- cruel,
- relentless,
- shamefully,
- tremendously,
- convoluted,
- single-minded,
- adamant,
- boisterous,
- reactionary,
- enormous,
- shrewish,
- totally,
- stiff-backed,
- Exceptious,
- inveterate,
- unsparing,
- Intractile,
- desperately,
- uncaring,
- lively,
- unrestricted,
- prejudiced,
- arbitrary,
- hugely,
- maladjusted,
- icy,
- noncooperative,
- controvert,
- rowdy,
- seriously,
- uncompassionate,
- deaf,
- invade,
- unwavering,
- unconventional,
- uncultivated,
- dearly,
- heavily,
- amazingly,
- callous,
- adamantine,
- resistive,
- go against,
- ill-behaved,
- unappeasable,
- short-sighted,
- angry,
- profusely,
- aggressive,
- fixed,
- stand,
- heartless,
- noncompliant,
- plaguy,
- unfettered,
- mightily,
- irrepressible,
- undifferentiated,
- dreadfully,
- massive,
- Unpliant,
- villainous,
- truly,
- slowness,
- unregenerate,
- restive,
- clumsiness,
- unchecked,
- rusty,
- rogue,
- terribly,
- Resisting,
- acutely,
- unchanging,
- enormously,
- labyrinthine,
- unworldly,
- fantastically,
- pitiless,
- unsophisticated,
- isolated,
- fully,
- Inductile,
- characterless,
- bullheaded,
- insensitive,
- differ,
- badly,
- exceptionally,
- really,
- wilful,
- unalterable,
- most,
- Restiff,
- impenetrable,
- violent,
- unregulated,
- good deal,
- ungoverned,
- dictatorial,
- dispassionate,
- very much,
- untamed,
- unrelieved,
- conventional,
- frigid,
- tumultuous,
- tyrannical,
- immutable,
- cool,
- astonishingly,
- untrammelled,
- uncontrolled,
- rampageous,
- undeviating,
- crotchety,
- confront,
- indifferent,
- extremely,
- Nonelastic,
- immensely,
- frustrate,
- exceedingly,
- vexatious,
- unsympathetic,
- appallingly,
- unusually,
- disagree,
- cramped,
- perfectly,
- Rhadamanthine,
- Humorsome,
- resolved,
- hostile,
- turbulent,
- vehement,
- counterbalance,
- infatuated,
- unsubmissive,
- thoroughly,
- awesomely,
- deny,
- froward,
- unvarying,
- considerably,
- Breachy,
- ever so,
- brutish,
- trackless,
- tangled,
- obstructive,
- inexorable,
- complicated,
- awfully,
- determined,
- oppressive,
- maladroitness,
- ineptness,
- indurate,
- hardened,
- imposing,
- impetuous,
- savage,
- inelastic,
- unfeeling,
- pathless,
- disobey,
- simply,
- poorly,
- counteract,
- unshakeable,
- forceful,
- decisively,
- bear,
- stolid,
- uproarious,
- Invious,
- inextensile,
- invariable,
- persistent,
- ruthless,
- remiss,
- raging,
- dogmatic,
- delinquent,
- Hard-mouthed,
- vastly,
- bigoted,
- unpredictable,
- especially,
- strait-laced,
- Stony-hearted,
- Prepossessed,
- Stoney,
- frenzied,
- provincial,
- resistant.
How to use "Intractable" in context?
Intractable is an adjective that means difficult to conquer or resolve. It is often used to describe situations or problems that are difficult or impossible to solve. Some people use the term to describe problems that are particularly challenging or frustrating to deal with. Intractable problems can be hard to solve because they are complex or because the parties involved are unwilling or unable to resolve them.
Paraphrases for Intractable:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
unsolvable.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
acute, arduous, contentious, controversial, convoluted, formidable, hard, impossible, ingrained, overwhelming, resistant, sophisticated, sticky, strenuous, troubling, unbeatable, uncontrolled, unforgiving.
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Other Related
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Adjective
awkward, challenging, complex, complicated, cumbersome, daunting, delicate, difficult, entrenched, incurable, inextricable, insoluble, insuperable, insurmountable, intricate, irreducible, knotty, persistent, problematic, recalcitrant, refractory, relentless, sensitive, stubborn, tenacious, thorny, tough, tricky, troublesome, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unresolved, unsurpassed, Irresolvable.
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