intractable

1. 1.

   not tractable; difficult to manage or mold

   “an intractable disposition”

   “intractable pain”

   “the most intractable issue of our era”

   “intractable metal”

   Antonymstractable

   Similarbalkingrefractoryuncontrollableunmalleable

Questions about intractable

What does intractable mean?

intractable means "not tractable; difficult to manage or mold".

How many syllables are in intractable?

intractable has 4 syllables: in-trac-ta-ble. The stress falls on "trac". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈtɹæktəbəl/.

What is the opposite of intractable?

The recorded antonyms are tractable.

Is intractable a common word?

intractable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with intractable?

2 words rhyme with intractable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.