0 in a way that is very difficult or impossible to control, manage, or solve:
an intractably violent relationship
They are intractably opposed to real efforts at real reform.
The minister talked of "an intractably broken health care system".
One is that psychiatric illness is endemic and that the human condition is mostly intractably unhappy.
The relationships between these factors are intertwined, perhaps intractably so.
However, as decision trees have a risk of becoming intractably large, we look for ways of pruning the decision tree.
Asymptomatic bacteriuria is prevalent in intractably incontinent elderly female patients, whether managed by catheter or pads.
Unfortunately they are intractably jealous of us, and would obliterate us entirely except that we have discovered magic rites that keep them at bay.
