intractable

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From in- +‎ tractable

AdjectiveEdit

intractable (comparative more intractable, superlative most intractable)

1. Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
2. (mathematics) Not able to be solved (of a mathematical problem).
3. Stubborn; obstinate (of a person).
4. (medicine) Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).

Derived termsEdit

• intractability
• intractableness
• intractably

TranslationsEdit

not tractable

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 難控制的, 难控制的 (nán kòngzhì de), 難解決的, 难解决的 (nán jiějué de)

• Czech: nezvladatelný m
• Dutch: onhandelbaar (nl)
• Finnish: hankala (fi), uppiniskainen, itsepäinen (fi), omapäinen (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can

• German: schwer handhabbar, verfahren (de)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: intractable
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: intraktabilan, nesavladiv (sh)
• Spanish: inmanejable m, f
• Swedish: ohanterlig

stubborn

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倔強 (zh), 倔强 (zh) (juéjiàng)

• Dutch: obstinaat (nl), koppig (nl)
• Finnish: itsepäinen (fi), omapäinen (fi), omavaltainen
• French: intraitable (fr)
• German: störrisch (de)

• Maori: kakī mārō
• Occitan: intractable
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: obstinado (es) m
• Swedish: omedgörlig (sv)

difficult to treat (of a medical condition)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: itsepintainwn
• German: unbehandelbar

• Occitan: intractable
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: intratable (es) m
• Swedish: svårbehandlad

ReferencesEdit

• intractable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• intractable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913