This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
stolid
ascetic
dour
intractable
lissom

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(in-TRAK-tuh-buhl)

MEANING:

adjective: Not easily handled, managed, or controlled.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin tractare (to handle), frequentative of trahere (draw). Earliest documented use: 1545.

USAGE:

“Leeds have traditionally employed the most dour, most intractable men outside of the Democratic Unionist Party as their managers. Now this. A man who can smile.”
Tom Humphries; Pain and Suffering Continues as Usual; Irish Times (Dublin); Nov 16, 1998.

See more usage examples of intractable in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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