Usually means: Difficult to solve or manage.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. intractable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. intractable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intractable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intractable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intractable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intractable, intractable: Wordnik
  7. intractable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intractable: Wiktionary
  9. intractable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intractable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intractable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intractable: Dictionary.com
  13. intractable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. intractable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Intractable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Intractable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. intractable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. intractable: Rhymezone
  19. Intractable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. intractable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. intractable: Free Dictionary
  22. intractable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. intractable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intractable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intractable: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Intractable: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  3. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  5. intractable: Medical dictionary
  6. Intractable: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See intractability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
adjective:  (mathematics) (of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve.
adjective:  Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem)
adjective:  Stubborn; obstinate. (of a person)
adjective:  (medicine) Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).

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