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adjective as in difficult, stubborn
Weak matches
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- tough-nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
adjective as in difficult
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
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Example Sentences
As such, it gets a pass on many of the more intractable issues of its subject matter.
He had a softer back than the others, but a much more intractable temper.
Words are piled on words, and bricks on bricks, but of the two you are invited to think words the more intractable.
That usually happens; the bolder a poacher one has been, the more intractable a gamekeeper one becomes.
Charged with a mission to Berne, he had returned to Geneva more insolent and more intractable than ever.
He convoked a second Parliament, and found it more intractable than the first.
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On this page you'll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to intractable, such as: incurable, intransigent, stubborn, uncompromising, unmanageable, and awkward.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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