intractable
adjective
not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate.
intractably
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a word derived from
intractable.
Example Sentences
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This had to be; she was too intractably hard a case in the first season, which consisted of three feature-length investigations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
At the center of this universe sits Papageno, a colorful, intractably disorderly oddball in muddied outdoor gear, an everyman turned unlikely superman who, in spurning the cultural mores that would shackle him, rises above them.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2023
“But what you learn from this history is how intractably linked our region’s growth was with the railroad.”
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
Researchers must include enough details to accurately describe the system, but not so much that they render it intractably complex.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2023
Just when matters seemed most intractably confused, along came another extraordinary figure with a novel approach.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
