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Antonyms for intractability
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : in-trak-tuh-buhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈtræk tə bəl |
Definition of intractability
Origin :- 1570s, from intractable + -ity.
- noun unruliness
- The intractability of the Lady Jezebel was beyond all bounds.
- Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Heaven supply me with fortitude to contest her wild opinions, and intractability!
- Extract from : « A Laodicean » by Thomas Hardy
- Wasn't she the author of a pamphlet on the intractability of servants?
- Extract from : « Married » by August Strindberg
- If Jill was to be wooed from her mood of intractability, Derek was the only man to do it.
- Extract from : « The Little Warrior » by P. G. Wodehouse
- Or weeks or months or years according to the degree of our intractability.
- Extract from : « When Ghost Meets Ghost » by William Frend De Morgan
- A vexatious delay occurred from the intractability of the mules, which persistently refused to allow themselves to be caught.
- Extract from : « South African Memories » by Lady Sarah Wilson
- She had had a great number of different teachers, all of whom had been brought to the point of despair by her intractability.
- Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann
- The word is also used non-politically, in the sense of intractability and intolerance.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 6 » by Various
- He subdued the intractability of all the four elements, and made them subservient to the use of man.
- Extract from : « The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10) » by Alexander Pope
- On p. 513, the phrase 'He subdued the intractability of all the four elements' had 'intractibility' in the original.
- Extract from : « The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10) » by Alexander Pope
Synonyms for intractability
- affront
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- hot air
- impudence
- impugnment
- indocility
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
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