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Webster 1828 Edition
Untractable
UNTRACT'ABLE
,Adj.
1.
Not tractable; not yielding to discipline; stubborn; indocile; ungovernable; as an untractable son.2.
Rough; difficult.3.
Not yielding to the heat or to the hammer; as an ore.[Intractable is more generally used.]
Definition 2024
untractable
untractable
English
Adjective
untractable (comparative more untractable, superlative most untractable)
References
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.