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Webster 1828 Edition

Intractable

INTRACT'ABLE

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Adj.

[L. intractabilis; in and tractabilis, tracto, to handle, manage, govern.]

1.

Not to be governed or managed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as an intractable temper.

2.

Not to be taught; indocile.

Definition 2024

intractable

intractable

English

Adjective

intractable ‎(comparative more intractable, superlative most intractable)

Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed
(mathematics) Not able to be solved (of a mathematical problem).
Stubborn; obstinate (of a person).
(medicine) Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).

Translations

not tractable

Arabic:
Chinese:
Mandarin: 難控制的, 难控制的 ‎(nán kòngzhì de), 難解決的, 难解决的 ‎(nán jiějué de)
Czech: nezvladatelný m
Dutch: onhandelbaar
Finnish: hankala (fi), uppiniskainen, itsepäinen (fi), omapäinen (fi)

French:
German: schwer handhabbar, verfahren (de)
Japanese:
Russian:
Serbo-Croatian: intraktabilan, nesavladiv (sh)
Spanish: inmanejable m, f
Swedish:

stubborn

Chinese:
Mandarin: 倔強 (zh), 倔强 (zh) ‎(juéjiàng)

Finnish: itsepäinen (fi), omapäinen (fi), omavaltainen
German: störrisch (de)
Maori: kakī mārō
Russian:
Spanish: obstinado (es) m

difficult to treat (of a medical condition)

Chinese:
Mandarin:

Finnish: itsepintainwn
German: unbehandelbar
Russian:
Spanish: intratable (es) m

Derived terms

References

intractable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
intractable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913