Definition of intractable in English:

intractable

adjective ɪnˈtraktəb(ə)lˌɪnˈtræktəb(ə)l

1Hard to control or deal with.
难控制的，难压制的；难处理的，难对付的，棘手的
intractable economic problems
棘手的经济问题。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nothing is more frightening - no economic problem more intractable - than a deflationary spiral.
- At the heart of the present political conflict is an intractable contradiction.
- Germany, with its intractable economic problems, is seriously considering it.
- This problem has grown increasingly intractable because of changing social expectations about parenthood.
- In the end he was beaten by Pandora, in whose box was not only the party demon but also the even more intractable economic and nationality devils.
- Now it represents one of the world's most intractable economies.
- Injections that block nerve transmission in the plexus may be helpful in the treatment of intractable abdominal pain, such as in cancer of the pancreas.
- For severe intractable cancer pain, more potent long-acting opioids are recommended.
- In that case the patient had been diagnosed with terminal cancer or intractable pain connected up with the terminal cancer.
- Economic progress has been accompanied by wide income disparities and intractable social problems.
- If all these measures fail and pain remains intractable, then below knee amputation may be needed.
- Given the intractable nature of controlling leaks, we need to try remedies that have not been tried before.
- War is further seen as a means of diverting the attention of working people from the intractable social and economic crisis at home.
- People with diabetes may develop a particularly intractable form of disordered eating that is not readily amenable to treatment.
- Under those circumstances, it's hard not to simply decide that the problem is intractable and give up.
- After years in the doldrums, the economy is picking up, and the seemingly intractable budget deficits have been avoided for the past two years.
- Spinal cord stimulators also are used in the treatment of intractable pain.
- Poverty remains intractable despite economic growth in many countries.
- In part this flows from the recognition that many of the most intractable social problems are not simply economic or even political.
- The patient was admitted to the hospital with intractable abdominal pain.
Synonyms
unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, out of control, out of hand, impossible to cope with
difficult, awkward, complex, troublesome, demanding, burdensome
1. 1.1 (of a person) difficult or stubborn.
  （人）难相处的；倔强的
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are intractable in their thinking, they are unreasoning and unreasonable and it's just a waste of breath to talk to them.
  I suggested that it'd not stay healthy for long if it had no work to do but he was intractable.
  She was brave, but she was also intractable, when she set her mind on something.
  The recollection is of a religious zealot, a somewhat dull and intractable man in stark contrast to his master, the virile and volatile Henry VIII.
  And he is similarly intractable on the matter of promotional activities, which he has strictly limited to three a week.
  The idea is to bring them on side, to drive a wedge between them and people they perceive as intractable opponents.
  That is perhaps one reason why its peoples are so intractable and difficult.
  When Dana reached her side, he realized that she was intractable.
  Synonyms
  stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, inflexible, unadaptable, unmalleable, unbending, unyielding, uncompromising, unaccommodating, uncooperative, difficult, awkward, perverse, contrary, disobedient, indomitable, refractory, recalcitrant, pig-headed, bull-headed, wilful
  North American rock-ribbed
  informal stiff-necked
  British informal bloody-minded
  North American informal balky

Derivatives

intractability

noun ɪntraktəˈbɪlətiˌɪnˌtræktəˈbɪlədi

Because of the intractability of her condition, the offender's prospects of rehabilitation are negligible.
Example sentencesExamples
- In all its intractability, this is the conversation that so many in so many different extra-governmental forums are now trying to ignite.
- Add to that a large body of psychiatric literature detailing the stubborn intractability of pedophilia, and it all adds up to a class of persons popularly considered beyond redemption.
- The intractability should remind us that the issue is not pro or anti globalization, but how to make publicly accountable the oligarchy that has led us into this experience of globalization as breeding more and more injustice.
- He was often accused of political intractability, a lack of imperativeness, too great a readiness to take clairvoyants seriously, and excessive slyness.

intractableness

nounɪnˈtraktəblnəsˌɪnˈtræktəbəlnəs

They charge her with intractableness in refusing to answer the judges at her trial, ignoring the fact that this was her judicial right.

intractably

adverbɪnˈtraktəbliˌɪnˈtræktəbli

However, typically, the number of non-dominated solutions increases with the number of criteria and the non-dominated set is often intractably large.
Example sentencesExamples
- This stands in stark contrast to those who complain about the fragmented nature of American society, or the seemingly intractably opposed interests of some of its citizens.
- In the West, the writers and artists and many of the clergy and public intellectuals are intractably anti-war.
- America appears mired, intractably, in the issues of race.
- What is it with folks from the ‘mainstream’ that they so intractably and consistently exclude demographic reality from their radar screens?

Origin

Late 15th century: from Latin intractabilis, from in- 'not' + tractabilis (see tractable).

Definition of intractable in US English:

intractable

adjectiveˌinˈtraktəb(ə)lˌɪnˈtræktəb(ə)l

1Hard to control or deal with.
难控制的，难压制的；难处理的，难对付的，棘手的
intractable economic problems
棘手的经济问题。
intractable pain
难以抑制的苦痛。
Example sentencesExamples
- Given the intractable nature of controlling leaks, we need to try remedies that have not been tried before.
- This problem has grown increasingly intractable because of changing social expectations about parenthood.
- At the heart of the present political conflict is an intractable contradiction.
- Spinal cord stimulators also are used in the treatment of intractable pain.
- Under those circumstances, it's hard not to simply decide that the problem is intractable and give up.
- War is further seen as a means of diverting the attention of working people from the intractable social and economic crisis at home.
- In part this flows from the recognition that many of the most intractable social problems are not simply economic or even political.
- For severe intractable cancer pain, more potent long-acting opioids are recommended.
- The patient was admitted to the hospital with intractable abdominal pain.
- In that case the patient had been diagnosed with terminal cancer or intractable pain connected up with the terminal cancer.
- Injections that block nerve transmission in the plexus may be helpful in the treatment of intractable abdominal pain, such as in cancer of the pancreas.
- In the end he was beaten by Pandora, in whose box was not only the party demon but also the even more intractable economic and nationality devils.
- Nothing is more frightening - no economic problem more intractable - than a deflationary spiral.
- If all these measures fail and pain remains intractable, then below knee amputation may be needed.
- After years in the doldrums, the economy is picking up, and the seemingly intractable budget deficits have been avoided for the past two years.
- Economic progress has been accompanied by wide income disparities and intractable social problems.
- Now it represents one of the world's most intractable economies.
- People with diabetes may develop a particularly intractable form of disordered eating that is not readily amenable to treatment.
- Poverty remains intractable despite economic growth in many countries.
- Germany, with its intractable economic problems, is seriously considering it.
Synonyms
unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, out of control, out of hand, impossible to cope with
1. 1.1 (of a person) difficult or stubborn.
  （人）难相处的；倔强的
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are intractable in their thinking, they are unreasoning and unreasonable and it's just a waste of breath to talk to them.
  I suggested that it'd not stay healthy for long if it had no work to do but he was intractable.
  That is perhaps one reason why its peoples are so intractable and difficult.
  And he is similarly intractable on the matter of promotional activities, which he has strictly limited to three a week.
  When Dana reached her side, he realized that she was intractable.
  The idea is to bring them on side, to drive a wedge between them and people they perceive as intractable opponents.
  She was brave, but she was also intractable, when she set her mind on something.
  The recollection is of a religious zealot, a somewhat dull and intractable man in stark contrast to his master, the virile and volatile Henry VIII.
  Synonyms
  stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, inflexible, unadaptable, unmalleable, unbending, unyielding, uncompromising, unaccommodating, uncooperative, difficult, awkward, perverse, contrary, disobedient, indomitable, refractory, recalcitrant, pig-headed, bull-headed, wilful

Origin

Late 15th century: from Latin intractabilis, from in- ‘not’ + tractabilis (see tractable).

词汇	intractable
释义	Definition of intractable in English: intractable adjective ɪnˈtraktəb(ə)lˌɪnˈtræktəb(ə)l 1Hard to control or deal with. 难控制的，难压制的；难处理的，难对付的，棘手的 intractable economic problems 棘手的经济问题。 Example sentencesExamples Nothing is more frightening - no economic problem more intractable - than a deflationary spiral. At the heart of the present political conflict is an intractable contradiction. Germany, with its intractable economic problems, is seriously considering it. This problem has grown increasingly intractable because of changing social expectations about parenthood. In the end he was beaten by Pandora, in whose box was not only the party demon but also the even more intractable economic and nationality devils. Now it represents one of the world's most intractable economies. Injections that block nerve transmission in the plexus may be helpful in the treatment of intractable abdominal pain, such as in cancer of the pancreas. For severe intractable cancer pain, more potent long-acting opioids are recommended. In that case the patient had been diagnosed with terminal cancer or intractable pain connected up with the terminal cancer. Economic progress has been accompanied by wide income disparities and intractable social problems. If all these measures fail and pain remains intractable, then below knee amputation may be needed. Given the intractable nature of controlling leaks, we need to try remedies that have not been tried before. War is further seen as a means of diverting the attention of working people from the intractable social and economic crisis at home. People with diabetes may develop a particularly intractable form of disordered eating that is not readily amenable to treatment. Under those circumstances, it's hard not to simply decide that the problem is intractable and give up. After years in the doldrums, the economy is picking up, and the seemingly intractable budget deficits have been avoided for the past two years. Spinal cord stimulators also are used in the treatment of intractable pain. Poverty remains intractable despite economic growth in many countries. In part this flows from the recognition that many of the most intractable social problems are not simply economic or even political. The patient was admitted to the hospital with intractable abdominal pain. Synonyms unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, out of control, out of hand, impossible to cope with difficult, awkward, complex, troublesome, demanding, burdensome 1.1 (of a person) difficult or stubborn. （人）难相处的；倔强的 Example sentencesExamples They are intractable in their thinking, they are unreasoning and unreasonable and it's just a waste of breath to talk to them. I suggested that it'd not stay healthy for long if it had no work to do but he was intractable. She was brave, but she was also intractable, when she set her mind on something. The recollection is of a religious zealot, a somewhat dull and intractable man in stark contrast to his master, the virile and volatile Henry VIII. And he is similarly intractable on the matter of promotional activities, which he has strictly limited to three a week. The idea is to bring them on side, to drive a wedge between them and people they perceive as intractable opponents. That is perhaps one reason why its peoples are so intractable and difficult. When Dana reached her side, he realized that she was intractable. Synonyms stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, inflexible, unadaptable, unmalleable, unbending, unyielding, uncompromising, unaccommodating, uncooperative, difficult, awkward, perverse, contrary, disobedient, indomitable, refractory, recalcitrant, pig-headed, bull-headed, wilful North American rock-ribbed informal stiff-necked British informal bloody-minded North American informal balky Derivatives intractability noun ɪntraktəˈbɪlətiˌɪnˌtræktəˈbɪlədi Because of the intractability of her condition, the offender's prospects of rehabilitation are negligible. Example sentencesExamples In all its intractability, this is the conversation that so many in so many different extra-governmental forums are now trying to ignite. Add to that a large body of psychiatric literature detailing the stubborn intractability of pedophilia, and it all adds up to a class of persons popularly considered beyond redemption. The intractability should remind us that the issue is not pro or anti globalization, but how to make publicly accountable the oligarchy that has led us into this experience of globalization as breeding more and more injustice. He was often accused of political intractability, a lack of imperativeness, too great a readiness to take clairvoyants seriously, and excessive slyness. intractableness nounɪnˈtraktəblnəsˌɪnˈtræktəbəlnəs They charge her with intractableness in refusing to answer the judges at her trial, ignoring the fact that this was her judicial right. intractably adverbɪnˈtraktəbliˌɪnˈtræktəbli However, typically, the number of non-dominated solutions increases with the number of criteria and the non-dominated set is often intractably large. Example sentencesExamples This stands in stark contrast to those who complain about the fragmented nature of American society, or the seemingly intractably opposed interests of some of its citizens. In the West, the writers and artists and many of the clergy and public intellectuals are intractably anti-war. America appears mired, intractably, in the issues of race. What is it with folks from the ‘mainstream’ that they so intractably and consistently exclude demographic reality from their radar screens? Origin Late 15th century: from Latin intractabilis, from in- 'not' + tractabilis (see tractable). Definition of intractable in US English: intractable adjectiveˌinˈtraktəb(ə)lˌɪnˈtræktəb(ə)l 1Hard to control or deal with. 难控制的，难压制的；难处理的，难对付的，棘手的 intractable economic problems 棘手的经济问题。 intractable pain 难以抑制的苦痛。 Example sentencesExamples Given the intractable nature of controlling leaks, we need to try remedies that have not been tried before. This problem has grown increasingly intractable because of changing social expectations about parenthood. At the heart of the present political conflict is an intractable contradiction. Spinal cord stimulators also are used in the treatment of intractable pain. Under those circumstances, it's hard not to simply decide that the problem is intractable and give up. War is further seen as a means of diverting the attention of working people from the intractable social and economic crisis at home. In part this flows from the recognition that many of the most intractable social problems are not simply economic or even political. For severe intractable cancer pain, more potent long-acting opioids are recommended. The patient was admitted to the hospital with intractable abdominal pain. In that case the patient had been diagnosed with terminal cancer or intractable pain connected up with the terminal cancer. Injections that block nerve transmission in the plexus may be helpful in the treatment of intractable abdominal pain, such as in cancer of the pancreas. In the end he was beaten by Pandora, in whose box was not only the party demon but also the even more intractable economic and nationality devils. Nothing is more frightening - no economic problem more intractable - than a deflationary spiral. If all these measures fail and pain remains intractable, then below knee amputation may be needed. After years in the doldrums, the economy is picking up, and the seemingly intractable budget deficits have been avoided for the past two years. Economic progress has been accompanied by wide income disparities and intractable social problems. Now it represents one of the world's most intractable economies. People with diabetes may develop a particularly intractable form of disordered eating that is not readily amenable to treatment. Poverty remains intractable despite economic growth in many countries. Germany, with its intractable economic problems, is seriously considering it. Synonyms unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, out of control, out of hand, impossible to cope with 1.1 (of a person) difficult or stubborn. （人）难相处的；倔强的 Example sentencesExamples They are intractable in their thinking, they are unreasoning and unreasonable and it's just a waste of breath to talk to them. I suggested that it'd not stay healthy for long if it had no work to do but he was intractable. That is perhaps one reason why its peoples are so intractable and difficult. And he is similarly intractable on the matter of promotional activities, which he has strictly limited to three a week. When Dana reached her side, he realized that she was intractable. The idea is to bring them on side, to drive a wedge between them and people they perceive as intractable opponents. She was brave, but she was also intractable, when she set her mind on something. The recollection is of a religious zealot, a somewhat dull and intractable man in stark contrast to his master, the virile and volatile Henry VIII. Synonyms stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, inflexible, unadaptable, unmalleable, unbending, unyielding, uncompromising, unaccommodating, uncooperative, difficult, awkward, perverse, contrary, disobedient, indomitable, refractory, recalcitrant, pig-headed, bull-headed, wilful Origin Late 15th century: from Latin intractabilis, from in- ‘not’ + tractabilis (see tractable).
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