intractability

intractability
Synonyms and related words:
civil disobedience, contumaciousness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, fractiousness, frowardness, immovability, immutability, incorrigibility, indiscipline, indocility, indomitability, inductility, inelasticity, inextensibility, inflexibility, infraction, infringement, insubordination, insuppressibility, irrepressibility, irresilience, irresiliency, lawbreaking, lawlessness, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, obstreperousness, passive resistance, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recusancy, refractoriness, resistance, restiveness, shrewishness, stubbornness, transgression, unalterability, unbendingness, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, ungovernability, unlimberness, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unpliability, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, unyieldingness, violation, waywardness, wildness, willful disobedience

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  • Intractability — In*tract a*bil i*ty, n. The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • intractability — 1570s, from INTRACTABLE (Cf. intractable) + ITY (Cf. ity) …   Etymology dictionary

  • intractability — intractable ► ADJECTIVE 1) hard to solve or deal with. 2) stubborn. DERIVATIVES intractability noun intractably adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • intractability — noun see intractable …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • intractability — See intractable. * * * …   Universalium

  • intractability — noun The state of being intractable; intractableness …   Wiktionary

  • intractability — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. mulishness, tenacity, obstinacy; see determination , stubbornness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being unruly: dis orderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intracta bleness, obstinacy,… …   English dictionary for students

  • intractability — in·trac·ta·bil·i·ty || ɪn‚træktÉ™ bɪlÉ™tɪ n. stubbornness, inflexibility, obstinacy; rebellion …   English contemporary dictionary

  • intractability — n. Stubbornness, obstinacy, perverseness, intractableness. See following adjective …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • intractability — n 1. intractableness, indocility, unsubmissiveness, insubmission, incompliance, incompli ancy, uncooperativeness, nonconformity; stubbornness, obstinateness, obstinacy, pervicaciousness, pig head edness, mulishness, obdurateness, hard headedness …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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