Intractable Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-trăktə-bəl
Difficult to persuade or keep under control, as in behavior:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. obstinate

Words Related to Intractable

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Intractable Sentence Examples

  • All attempts to arrange a truce between the two intractable conquerors were in vain.

  • Though not gratuitously aggressive, they are highly intractable, and have given great trouble to the Chinese authorities.

  • Attacks of sciatica are often attended with great suffering, and are apt to be very intractable to treatment.

  • Halleck, Lincoln and Stanton, the intractable, if energetic, war secretary, now stood aside, and the efforts of the whole vast army were to be directed and co-ordinated by one supreme military authority.

  • Thus far, North Korea has proved intractable on the issue.

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