I am too rude—too rough—too intractable to deal with any being so soft and gentle as you are.
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Intractable
Synonyms for "intractable" (106 found)
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Strong matches (31)
Related words (53)
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Antonyms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
76 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- неподатлив adj (not tractable)
- непокорен adj (not tractable)
- упорит adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- упорит adj (medicine: difficult to treat)
Catalan
1 entries- intractable adj (not tractable)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 倔強 /倔强 adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- 難控制的 /难控制的 adj (not tractable)
- 難治癒的 /难治愈的 adj (medicine: difficult to treat)
- 難解決的 /难解决的 adj (not tractable)
Czech
1 entries- nezvladatelný adj (not tractable)
Dutch
4 entries- koppig adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- moeilijk adj (mathematics: not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve)
- obstinaat adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- onhandelbaar adj (not tractable)
Finnish
4 entries- hankala adj (not tractable)
- hankala adj (of a problem: difficult to deal with, solve, or manage)
- itsepintainen adj (medicine: difficult to treat)
- itsepäinen adj (not tractable)
French
4 entries- buté adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- ingouvernable adj (not tractable)
- intraitable adj (mathematics: not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve)
- intraitable adj (stubborn, obstinate)
German
4 entries- schwer handhabbar adj (not tractable)
- schwierig zu behandeln adj (medicine: difficult to treat)
- stur adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- störrisch adj (stubborn, obstinate)
Hungarian
4 entries- csökönyös adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- engedetlen adj (not tractable)
- fegyelmezhetetlen adj (not tractable)
- hajthatatlan adj (stubborn, obstinate)
Latin
1 entries- intractābilis adj (not tractable)
Māori
2 entries- kakī mārō adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- upoko mārō adj (stubborn, obstinate)
Occitan
3 entries- intractable adj (not tractable)
- intractable adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- intractable adj (medicine: difficult to treat)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صارپ adj (stubborn, obstinate)
Russian
4 entries- непода́тливый adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- непоко́рный adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- неуправляемый adj (not tractable)
- тру́дный adj (mathematics: not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- intraktabilan adj (not tractable)
- nesavladiv adj (not tractable)
Spanish
4 entries- inmanejable adj (not tractable)
- intratable adj (mathematics: not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve)
- intratable adj (of a problem: difficult to deal with, solve, or manage)
- intratable adj (medicine: difficult to treat)
Swedish
3 entries- ohanterlig adj (not tractable)
- omedgörlig adj (stubborn, obstinate)
- svårbehandlad adj (medicine: difficult to treat)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Determining the shortest path through any arbitrary set of points is an intractable problem.
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That morning, I began to feel the intractable pain of a migraine. Frustrated, I cancelled my plans, closed the curtains, and lay in bed the rest of the day waiting for it to pass.
Source: tatoeba (10660788)
Quantum computers might one day have the ability to push computational boundaries, allowing us to solve problems that have been intractable thus far, such as integer factorization, which is important for encryption.
Source: tatoeba (12040119)
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