adjective. undefined

adjective. Difficult to manage, deal with, or change to an acceptable condition.

adjective. Difficult to alleviate, remedy, or cure.

adjective. Difficult to persuade or keep under control, as in behavior: synonym: obstinate.

adjective. Difficult to mold or manipulate.

Not tractable or to be drawn or guided by persuasion; uncontrollable.

Not to be brought into the desired order or condition; unmanageable; resisting effort: as, an intractable disposition; an intractable subject for literary treatment.

Synonyms Stubborn, Refractory, etc. (see obstinate); unruly, unmanageable, ungovernable, wilful.

adjective. Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory.

adjective. Not tractable or to be drawn or guided by persuasion; not easily governed, managed, or directed; uncontrollable; incurable; violent; stubborn; obstinate.

adjective. not tractable; difficult to manage or mold

"This pattern has developed into a state that conflict scholars label intractable and that mathematicians call an attractor: the Israel-Palestinian conflict has thus become an intractable attractor."

refractory  

balking  balky  refractory  stubborn  uncontrollable  

intractability  intractableness  intractably  

retractable  tractable  

disobedient  headstrong  inflexible  insubordinate  irreconcilable  

adamant  adamantine  beyond control  breachy  bullheaded