| 单词 |
intractability |
| 释义 |
intractability|ɪnˌtræktəˈbɪlɪtɪ| [f. next: see -ity.] The quality of being intractable; intractableness: a. of persons or animals.
1579Fenton Guicciard. i. (1599) 17 Virginio, to whose intractabilitie and obstinacie, he referred the chief occasion of all these disorders. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) p. xix, It is not to be regretted..that something of intractability should manifest itself. 1890‘L. Falconer’ Mlle. Ixe i. (1891) 33 The incapacity of the teachers or the intractability of the pupils. b. Of things.
1738Warburton Div. Legat. ii. App., Wks. 1811 II. 219 The greater portions of the physical system may, from the intractability of Matter, be subject to some inconsiderable irregularities. 1828W. Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 5 Barrenness and intractability of soil. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 588 His observation as to the intractability of advanced laryngeal phthisis. |

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