Definition of Intractable

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Definition of Intractable
	Intractable Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Related Definitions: An, As, Be, Child, Directed, Disciplined, Easily, Governed, Indisposed, Intractable, Managed, Not, Obstinate, Or, Refractory, Stubborn, Tamed, Taught, To, Tractable, Violent

Intractable Quotations

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
Alain de Botton

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
Thomas Nagel

The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
Sydney Brenner

Intractable Translations

intractable in Hungarian is konok, engedetlen

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