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- pronunciation:
- ihn
traek
t
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
not easily controlled, managed, or persuaded.
His niece was the only person who had any influence on that intractable old man.- antonyms:
- malleable, tractable
- similar words:
- contumacious, difficult, hardheaded, hopeless, mulish, problem, recalcitrant, wild
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| definition 2: |
not easily shaped, manipulated, or solved.
This hard, brittle metal is intractable until heated.No amount of diplomatic ingenuity will resolve the intractable conflict between these two countries.- antonyms:
- malleable, tractable
- similar words:
- recalcitrant
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| definition 3: |
not easily treated, relieved, or cured.
These drugs will only temporarily suppress an intractable cough. |
| related words: |
contrary, defiant, hopeless, impenetrable, impossible, inflexible, lawless, obdurate, obstinate, stubborn, tough, unbending, wayward, willful |
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| derivations: |
intractably (adv.), intractability (n.), intractableness (n.) |
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