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intractable - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | intractable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult |
| Synonyms: | awkward, cantankerous, contrary, fractious, hang tough, hard-line, headstrong, immovable, incurable, indomitable, insoluble, intransigent, locked, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, unyielding, wayward, wild, willful, bull-headed, incompliant, indocile, locked in, self-willed, tough nut, unpliable |
| Notes: | intractable means stubborn or obstinate; intransigent is this, but implies being more intense and refusing to compromise or change |
| Antonyms: | manageable |
| Main Entry: | intractable /intransigent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, stubborn |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bullheaded*, cantankerous, contrary, hang tough*, hard-line*, headstrong, immovable, incurable, indomitable, insoluble, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded*, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, tenacious, tough, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, unyielding, wayward, wild, willful, incompliant, indocile, locked in, self-willed, set in stone, tough-nut, unpliable |
| Antonyms: | amenable, easy, facile, manageable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | balky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncooperative |
| Synonyms: | averse, contrary, hesitant, immovable, indisposed, inflexible, intractable, loath, negative, obstinate, ornery, perverse, reluctant, stubborn, unbending, unmanageable, unpredictable, unruly, negativistic |
| Antonyms: | cooperative |
| Main Entry: | contrary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic; opposite |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antipathetic, antipodal, antithetical, balky, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contumacious, converse, counter, diametric, discordant, dissident, froward, headstrong, hostile, inconsistent, inimical, insubordinate, intractable, negative, nonconforming, nonconformist, obstinate, opposed, ornery*, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, reverse, stubborn, unruly, wayward, anti, antipodean, contrariant, dissentient, paradoxical, recusant, wrongheaded |
| Antonyms: | accommodating, agreeing, alike, correspondent, harmonious, homogeneous, like, obliging, similar, concordant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contumacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | headstrong, obstinate |
| Synonyms: | alienated, contrary, disaffected, factious, froward, haughty, inflexible, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, intransigent, irreconcilable, mutinous, obdurate, perverse, pig-headed, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, seditious, stubborn, unyielding, estranged |
| Antonyms: | following, obedient, subordinate, tractable, willing |
| Main Entry: | disobedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defiant, mischievous |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, disorderly, fractious, froward, headstrong, insubordinate, intractable, naughty, noncompliant, obstreperous, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, undisciplined, unruly, wayward, willful, nonobservant, resistive, uncompliant |
| Antonyms: | nice, obedient, observant, accepting, behaving, submitting |
| Main Entry: | fractious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grouchy, cross |
| Synonyms: | awkward, captious, crabby*, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy*, indomitable, intractable, irritable, mean, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, snappish, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, undisciplined, unmanageable, unruly, wayward, wild, indocile, pettish, scrappy, uncompliant |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, complaisant, happy, nice, patient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding, crabbed, glowering, horrid, scowling, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hard-nosed/hardheaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | astute, bullheaded*, hard*, hard-boiled*, headstrong, intractable, levelheaded, mulish, obstinate, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded*, practical, pragmatic, rational, realistic, resolute, sensible, shrewd, sober, stand pat, tough, unyielding, willful, locked in, tough-nut, unsentimental |
| Antonyms: | easy, laid-back, merciful, easy-going |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | headstrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | bullheaded*, contrary, determined, foolhardy, froward, hard-core*, hard-nosed, heedless, imprudent, impulsive, intractable, mulish, murder, obstinate, perverse, pig-headed*, rash, reckless, refractory, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, unyielding, willful, hard-shell, locked-in, mule, self-willed, strong-minded |
| Antonyms: | calm, docile, moderate, obedient, submissive, tolerant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | implacable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | merciless, cruel |
| Synonyms: | grim, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, mortal, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unbending, uncompromising, unflinching, unforgiving, unrelenting, unyielding, vindictive, ironfisted, rancorous, unappeasable |
| Antonyms: | kind, merciful, nice, placable |
| Main Entry: | incorrigible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, hopeless |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, beastly, hardened, incurable, intractable, inveterate, irreparable, loser, useless, wicked, irredeemable, recidivous, uncorrectable, unreformed |
| Antonyms: | good, manageable, nice, obedient, reformable |
| Main Entry: | insubordinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, factious, fractious, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, naughty, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, riotous, seditious, treacherous, turbulent, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly, dissentious, uncompliant, uncomplying |
| Antonyms: | compliant, obedient, behaved |
| Main Entry: | mulish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obstinate |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bullheaded, dogged, firm, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, inflexible, intractable, obdurate, opinionated, persistent, pigheaded*, recalcitrant, relentless, single-minded, steadfast, stubborn, tenacious, dead set on, strong-minded |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obstinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn, determined |
| Synonyms: | adamant, cantankerous, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, convinced, dogged, dogmatic, firm, hard, hardened, headstrong, heady, immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, mulish*, obdurate, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded*, recalcitrant, refractory, relentless, restive, steadfast, tenacious, unalterable, unflinching, unmanageable, unyielding, willful, dead set on, locked in, opinionative, resolved, self-willed, strong-minded |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, amenable, cooperative, flexible, helpful, submissive, willing, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perverse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean, ornery; troublesome |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, bad-tempered, cantankerous, capricious, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, corrupt, crabby*, cross, degenerate, delinquent, depraved, deviant, disobedient, dogged*, erring, fractious, hard-nosed, headstrong, intractable, intransigent, irritable, miscreant, mulish*, nefarious, obdurate, obstinate, petulant, pigheaded*, rebellious, refractory, rotten*, spiteful, stubborn, unhealthy, unmanageable, unreasonable, unyielding, villainous, wayward, wicked, willful, self-willed |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, compliant, happy, nice, reasonable, willing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pigheaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | bullheaded, contrary, dense*, forward, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mulish*, obstinate, perverse, recalcitrant, stupid*, unyielding, willful, self-willed, stiff-necked |
| Antonyms: | flexible, reasonable, submissive, willing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rebellious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, unmanageable |
| Synonyms: | alienated, bellicose, contumacious, defiant, difficult, disaffected, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, fractious, iconoclastic, incorrigible, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, obstinate, pugnacious, quarrelsome, radical, rebel, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, restless, revolutionary, riotous, seditious, threatening, turbulent, ungovernable, unruly, warring, anarchistic, attacking, individualistic, insurrectionary, rioting, sabotaging, treasonable |
| Antonyms: | compliant, governable, manageable, obedient |
| Main Entry: | recalcitrant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, uncontrollable |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, defiant, fractious, indomitable, insubordinate, intractable, obstinate, opposing, radical, rebellious, refractory, resistant, stubborn, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, unwilling, wayward, wild, willful, insubmissive, resisting, undisciplinable, withstanding |
| Antonyms: | amenable, obedient, passive |
| Main Entry: | stubborn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obstinate, unyielding |
| Synonyms: | adamant, balky, bullheaded, cantankerous, contumacious, cussed, determined, dogged, firm, fixed, hardheaded, headstrong, inexorable, inflexible, insubordinate, intractable, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, ornery*, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded*, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, relentless, rigid, self-willed, set in one's ways, single-minded, steadfast, stiff-necked*, tenacious, tough, unbending, unmanageable, unreasonable, unshakable, untoward, willful |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, complacent, compliant, giving, willing, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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