Usually means: Impossible to manage or solve.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word intractably:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. intractably: Merriam-Webster
  2. intractably: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intractably: Collins English Dictionary
  4. intractably: Vocabulary.com
  5. intractably: Wordnik
  6. intractably: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. intractably: Wiktionary
  8. intractably: Dictionary.com
  9. Intractably: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. intractably: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. intractably: FreeDictionary.org
  12. intractably: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. intractably: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. intractably: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. intractably: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (intractably)

▸ adverb:  In an intractable manner; uncontrollably; unmanageably.

Similar:
untractably, unmanageably, obdurately, intransigently, unreconcilably, uncontainably, unconfinably, uncontrollably, ungovernably, unendurably, more...

Opposite:
tractably, manageably, cooperatively, compliantly

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Similar:
untractably, unmanageably, obdurately, intransigently, unreconcilably, uncontainably, unconfinably, uncontrollably, ungovernably, unendurably, more...

Opposite:
tractably, manageably, cooperatively, compliantly



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