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intractable

Can't manage your stubborn little brother who won't do what anyone says? You could call him intractable, or you could call your mother. Problems are intractable when they can't be solved.

Intractable means not tractable. Helpful, right? No? Let's break it down. In both words you see the word tract. A contract is a written document that explains how a legal situation is to be managed together. When someone is tractable they are able to be managed or handled. When they are intractable, they are as unmanageable as a hungry two-year old.

DEFINITIONS OF: intractable

1

adj not tractable; difficult to manage or mold

“an intractable disposition”
“intractable pain”
“the most intractable issue of our era”
“intractable metal”
Synonyms
defiant, noncompliant
boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
difficult, unmanageable
hard to control
disobedient
not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority
obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate
tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
untamed, wild
in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
balking, balky
stopping short and refusing to go on
refractory, stubborn
not responding to treatment
uncontrollable, unmanageable
difficult to solve or alleviate
unmalleable
difficult or impossible to shape or work
Antonyms:
manipulable, tractable
easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
compliant
disposed or willing to comply
manageable
capable of being managed or controlled
obedient
dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority
docile
willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
tame, tamed
brought from wildness into a domesticated state
ductile, malleable
easily influenced
docile, teachable
ready and willing to be taught
tamable, tameable
capable of being tamed
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