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How to pronounce intractableness in English?

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hi there students
in this video i want to look at the
adjectives
tractable and intractable
they're the opposite tractability
the quality intractability a noun
tractableness intractableness as well
also a noun and then tractably
intractably as an adverb okay
if something is or someone is
tractable they are easily dealt with
easily controlled um
easily persuaded so
small children are very tractable
but as they get older they become more
and more
intractable okay so
intractable very difficult or impossible
to control to manage to solve
yeah so um
i hope well i believe covid is
an intractable problem it's complicated
it's difficult it's difficult to manage
and difficult to solve
although i think the problem is becoming
slightly more
tractable slightly easier
to deal with
the problem turned out to be less
tractable than i had expected
it was more intractable than
i believed so intractable
difficult or impossible to manage or
control
an intractable child yeah somebody who's
intractable just says
no okay so
tractable yeah you can uh persuade
easily to manage easily easy to govern
malleable yeah um if all our problems
attract a
tractable then we're not life is going
to be
easy um the older brother
the old the older child could easily
manage his tractable young brother he's
manageable obedient compliant
tame amenable submissive
yeah and then as opposed to its opposite
somebody who is stubborn and obstinate
they're not going to change
their mind he intractably refused to
sign the contract
yeah the employee intractably demanded
what was his an intractable
dilemma yeah an intractable conflict
the enemy is intractable and demands
that
we surrender and nothing else will do
maybe you could have intractable pain
yeah there's nothing you can do to
alleviate
it yeah so somebody who's
difficult to persuade is intractable
yeah the donkey has a reputation for
being intractable
when it makes up its mind
notice you can actually use tractable or
intractable to talk about something that
physically is
malleable or easy to mold or manipulate
so i know plasticine or play-doh
is very tractable tractable whereas
diamond is very intractable
okay so intractable difficult to
influence he had a an intractable
disposition yeah it's difficult
to do anything with it to make it do
anything
okay so tractable a person who's easily
taught led or managed their docile
governable manageable attract
attractable problems something that's
easy to deal with
easy to manage um tractable
uh somebody you can persuade
tractable malleable yet physically easy
to
be to shape uh and notice
um i think even in mathematics something
that is
intractable is uh something a
calculation that
doesn't have a solution okay
so an intractable person somebody who
absolutely refuses to change their mind
yeah they're stubborn they're difficult
to manage
um so i guess yeah things like phrasal
verbs and spelling are pretty
intractable difficulties within the
english language
okay so tractable and intractable
how formal are these i would say
i would give intractable a 7.5
no i yeah okay i would give impractical
in intractable
intractable that sounds better
intractable
a 7.5 in formality and i think i would
give
tractable an 8 i think tractables more
unusual
these are both sound very very literary
words
um informally easy to deal with
difficult to deal with stubborn
yeah or compliant yeah somebody who
uh all helpful easy to manage
and then as to the origin we've got
free comes from latin tractabilis or
intractabulous tractabilis something
that can be
touched or handled or managed from
tracto to take in hand to manage to
handle
okay so that's reasonably easy
so if you've got this foreign english
you know
that learning english it might be
difficult to handle intractable but it's
not impossible
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intractableness::noun | Spocien Dictionary

intractableness

noun

/ɪn'træktəbəlnɛs/

the trait of being hard to influence or control

Type	Words
Synonyms	intractability
Type of	trait
Has types	defiance, disobedience, fractiousness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, stubbornness, unmanageableness, unruliness, wildness, wilfulness, balkiness, willfulness
Derivation	intractable

How to pronounce intractableness in English?

intractableness::noun | Spocien Dictionary

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