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intractable
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
- unbending
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
Example Sentences
Investors are betting the tariff will incentivize drug companies to invest in American production facilities and that the drug sales platform, TrumpRx, can solve the intractable cost of medication.
Making the situation even more intractable is the timing: the pending departure of Macron makes it all the more unlikely that either side will make concessions.
The region’s intractable housing and homelessness crisis is at the core of the union push.
Since the start of the war it has become shorthand for a series of intractable and maximalist demands that Putin say stand in the way of a ceasefire.
Whenever Kremlin officials have spoken this week, it has been to reiterate Putin's seemingly intractable position on the conflict.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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