intractable - not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal"defiant, noncompliant - boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; "brought up to be aggressive and defiant"; "a defiant attitude" disobedient - not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children" stubborn - tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield untamed, wild - in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants" manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler |