INTRACTABILITY, INTRACTABLE, INTRACTABLY
ADJECTIVES
► MULISH sulky, stubborn, intractable; resembling a mule → 1600
► UNBOWSOME intractable, recalcitrant → c1290 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
ADVERBS
► UNBUXOMLY intractably, recalcitrantly → 1390 obs.
NOUNS
► UNBOWSOMENESS intractability, recalcitrance → 1340 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► HAGGARD a wild and intractable person (at first, a female); one not to be captured → 1578 obs.
► HAITHEN an intractable or difficult person or thing → 1949 Sc.
► HARD CORE an intractable person → 1916
► HELL-BOLTER an intractable person; a stubborn or uncontrollable person → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
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