English noun: intractability | |||
| 1. | intractability (attribute) the trait of being hard to influence or control | ||
| Synonyms | intractableness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | trait | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | balkiness, defiance, disobedience, fractiousness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, stubbornness, unmanageableness, unruliness, wildness, wilfulness, willfulness | ||
| Antonyms | tractability, tractableness, flexibility | ||