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Definition of intractable adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

intractable

adjective
 
/ɪnˈtræktəbl/
 
/ɪnˈtræktəbl/
(formal)
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  1. (of a problem or a person) very difficult to deal with
    • Unemployment was proving to be an intractable problem.
    • There was no pleasing this intractable man.
    opposite tractable
    Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin intractabilis, from in- ‘not’ + tractabilis (from tractare ‘to handle’, frequentative of trahere ‘draw’).
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