intractable
hard to control, manage, or solve
Word origin: From Latin tractare, to handle, from trahere, to draw.
Intractable in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing intractable in a sentence.
Poverty remains an intractable problem that resists simple solutions.
The dispute over water rights proved intractable, resisting every settlement the mediators proposed.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
Once a blank supporter of the policy, the governor now denounces it at every opportunity, embarrassed that she ever endorsed it.
Using “intractable” well
Intractable describes problems too hard to solve or people too stubborn to manage, and it contrasts with manageable and docile.
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