Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-TRACT'A-BLE
UN-TRACK'EDUN-TRACT'A-BLE-NESS
UN-TRACT'A-BLE, a. [L. intractabilis.]
- Not tractable; not yielding to discipline; stubborn; indocile; ungovernable; as, an untractable son. Locke.
- Rough; difficult. Milton.
- Not yielding to the heat or to the hammer; as an ore. [Intractable is more generally used.]
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