untreatableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈtriːtəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈtridəb(ə)l/ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things)
wickc1330
riotous1340
wickeda1352
untreatablec1374
frowarda1400
inobedient1495
stubborn?1518
unwieldya1538
unruly1548
wieldlessa1560
hard1560
untoward1566
tickle1570
churlish1577
unwieldsome1579
rebellious1587
disobedient1588
unframeable1593
unwilling1593
untractable1601
unmanageable1606
intractable1607
surly1609
unwedgeablea1616
dogged1627
uncontrollable1648
obdurate1651
morose1652
uncompliant1659
sullen1678
unpliant1716
ungovernable1773
sulky1867
intractile1880
unwieldly1881
bunglesome1915
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) ii. pr. viii. 61 For-as-mochel as thow shalt nat wenen..þat I bere vntretable batayle ayenis fortune.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes i. xv. 5638 For Narcisus was nat merciable Toward Echcho,..But in his port was founden ontretable.
c1450 Burgh Contn. Lydgate Secrees 2196 Yif he be wood and vntretable, He may..thy Reem destroye.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxviii If that deth vntretable Arrest the with his mace.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (ii. 9) The greater part avanceth itselfe against him with untreatable feercenesse.
1604–5 in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 4th Ser. 4 137 Parishioners doe fynde mutch faulte with his untreatable reading in the tyme of public prayer.
1675 G. R. tr. A. Le Grand Man without Passion 137 Anger that wild and untreatable Passion.
a1745 Serm. in Wks. (1765) XVI. 31 [It] caused many of them..to be..supercilious and untreatable.
2. Not admitting of medical treatment.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of persons: beyond cure or remedy > of disease or wound
recurelessc1425
unrecoverable1461
remedilessa1513
cureless1557
irrecoverable1594
unrecuring1594
immedicable1596
unruly1596
irrecured1598
irrelievable1670
irremediable1801
incorrigible1804
immedicinable1826
untreatable1865
inoperable1886
unrelievable1898
1865 Q. Rev. July 33 Untreatable by any known remedy, this malady would seem now to have nearly worn itself out.
Derivatives
unˈtreatableness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > disobedient stubbornness
contumacec1230
unbuxomnessa1300
unbuxomheada1325
contumacyc1386
sturdinessa1400
stoutnessc1400
contumacityc1420
pervicacy1537
untractablenessa1600
pervicacity1604
contumation1618
refractariness1624
refractoriness1627
incorrigiblenessa1631
indocibleness1647
immorigerousness1649
contumaciousness1654
refracture1659
intractableness1664
unmanageableness1664
refractiveness1674
untractibleness1676
pervicaciousness1692
untreatableness1693
untractability1797
recalcitrancy1844
recalcitrance1845
1693 C. Mather Wonders Invisible World Def. A 2 The unaccountable Frowardness, Asperity, Untreatableness, and Inconsistency of many persons.
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