Synonyms for Intractable:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • intractable.
  •balky (adjective)
  • immovable,
  • in tractable,
  • more negativistic,
  • un-predictable,
  • in-disposed,
  • un-manageable,
  • un predictable,
  • most negativistic,
  • in disposed,
  • un manageable,
  • in-tractable.
  •contrary (adjective)
  • 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.
  •contumacious (adjective)
  • insurgent.
  •deaf (adjective)
  • unhearing,
  • to listen blind,
  • self-willed.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • 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.
  •disobedient (adjective)
  • seditious,
  • mutinous,
  • mischievous,
  • defiant,
  • traitorous,
  • Disobeying,
  • nonobservant,
  • out of control,
  • non-compliant,
  • treacherous,
  • disloyal,
  • Disregardful,
  • factious,
  • treasonous,
  • subversive,
  • Misbehaving.
  •fractious (adjective)
  • snappish,
  • pettish,
  • huffy.
  •grim (adjective)
  • 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.
  •hard-nosed/hardheaded (adjective)
  • 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.
  •hardheaded (adjective)
  • hardheaded,
  • level headed.
  •headstrong (adjective)
  • 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.
  •implacable (adjective)
  • unforgiving,
  • remorseless,
  • more ironfisted,
  • un appeasable,
  • un-compromising,
  • un flinching,
  • most ironfisted,
  • un-forgiving,
  • un-appeasable,
  • un compromising,
  • un-flinching,
  • un forgiving.
  •inalterable (adjective)
  • in variable,
  • in alterable,
  • in-alterable,
  • in-variable.
  •incompliant (adjective)
  • in-compliant,
  • in compliant,
  • more brassbound,
  • most brassbound.
  •incorrigible (adjective)
  • irredeemable,
  • Recidivous,
  • uncorrectable,
  • unreformed.
  •indocile (adjective)
  • in docile,
  • in-docile.
  •inflexible (adjective)
  • 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.
  •insubordinate (adjective)
  • more dissentious,
  • un complying,
  • more uncomplying,
  • in-subordinate,
  • un-complying,
  • in subordinate,
  • most dissentious,
  • most uncomplying.
  •insurmountable (adjective)
  • unconquerable.
  •mulish (adjective)
  • opinionated.
  •naughty (adjective)
  • most exasperating,
  • teasing,
  • more rascally,
  • more exasperating,
  • in decorous,
  • ex asperating,
  • impish,
  • most rascally,
  • ex-asperating,
  • in-decorous.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • opinionative.
  •perverse (adjective)
  • bad tempered,
  • de generate,
  • un healthiest,
  • un-reasonable,
  • de-generate,
  • un-healthy,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un healthy,
  • badtempered,
  • un reasonable,
  • un healthier.
  •pig-headed (adjective)
  • pig headed.
  •rebellious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •recalcitrant (adjective)
  • 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.
  •refractory (adjective)
  • un responsive,
  • un-responsive.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • 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.
  •stubborn (adjective)
  • most cussed,
  • un-shakable,
  • more cussed.
  •tough (adjective)
  • 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.
  •troublesome (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unbendable (adjective)
  • un bendable,
  • un-bendable.
  •unbending (adjective)
  • 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.
  •uncompliant (adjective)
  • un compliant,
  • un-compliant.
  •unconquerable (adjective)
  • indefeasible,
  • inexpugnable.
  •uncontrollable (adjective)
  • uncontainable,
  • like a loose cannon.
  •ungovernable (adjective)
  • un governable,
  • un bridled,
  • un-bridled,
  • un-governable.
  •unruly (adjective)
  • in-temperate,
  • in temperate,
  • out control,
  • out line.
  •untoward (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unyielding (adjective)
  • Immalleable,
  • more impliable,
  • un movable,
  • un-yielding,
  • most immalleable,
  • un-wavering,
  • un-movable,
  • un wavering,
  • more immalleable,
  • un yielding,
  • most impliable.
  •wayward (adjective)
  • most cross grained,
  • most cross-grained,
  • self indulgent,
  • cross grained,
  • more cross-grained,
  • most crossgrained,
  • un stabler,
  • in-constant,
  • un dependable,
  • selfindulgent,
  • more cross grained,
  • un stable,
  • un-stabler,
  • un-stable,
  • more crossgrained,
  • un-stablest,
  • un stablest,
  • un-dependable.

• n.

  •
  • conservative,
  • intolerant,
  • rigid,
  • bloody-minded,
  • narrow,
  • narrow-minded,
  • closed.
  •
  • delicate,
  • critical,
  • lawless,
  • control,
  • disorderly,
  • trying,
  • order,
  • resist,
  • peace.
  •balking (noun)
  • balking.
  •intractable (noun)
  • unmalleable.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • intolerable,
  • messy,
  • unfeasible,
  • insolvable,
  • straitened,
  • unbridgeable,
  • insuperable.
  •
  • obstreperous.
  •
  • gnarly,
  • inaccessible,
  • chronic,
  • unrelenting,
  • elusive,
  • hypersensitive.
  •
  • gray.
  •
  • heavy.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Intractable:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    unsolvable.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    formidable, impossible, troubling, uncontrolled, contentious, ingrained, strenuous, unbeatable, unforgiving, convoluted, sticky, sophisticated, controversial, overwhelming, resistant, arduous, acute, hard.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    insoluble, inextricable, insurmountable, difficult, incurable, uncontrollable, insuperable, thorny, intricate, persistent, challenging, unmanageable, complicated, troublesome, recalcitrant, delicate, irreducible, knotty, problematic, Irresolvable, tenacious, refractory, stubborn, unresolved, tricky, tough, daunting, complex, cumbersome, awkward, sensitive, unsurpassed, relentless, entrenched.

Antonyms for Intractable:

• adj.

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