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intractably
adverb as in obstinately
Strong matches
Weak matches
- bullheadedly
- contumaciously
- determinedly
- doggedly
- firmly
- fixedly
- headstrongly
- indomitably
- inflexibly
- opinionatedly
- persistently
- pertinaciously
- pigheadedly
- recalcitrantly
- resistantly
- resolutely
- resolvedly
- staunchly
- steadfastly
- stolidly
- tenaciously
- unamenably
- unflinchingly
- unimpressibly
- unreasonably
- unreasoningly
- unrelentingly
- unwaveringly
- unyieldingly
- willfully
Example Sentences
At the center of this universe sits Papageno, a colorful, intractably disorderly oddball in muddied outdoor gear, an everyman turned unlikely superman who, in spurning the cultural mores that would shackle him, rises above them.
“But what you learn from this history is how intractably linked our region’s growth was with the railroad.”
Researchers must include enough details to accurately describe the system, but not so much that they render it intractably complex.
Many Prince Georgians are “intractably trapped” in generational poverty with few prospects for escaping, the resolution stated, and the pilot project seeks to address “closing the racial wealth gap.”
Access to guns, too, is a special American problem that might render this society intractably more violent than peers around the world, barring fundamental reforms.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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