Tractable

Quick meaning: Tractable is an adjective meaning (of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.

Meaning

(of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.

More Meanings

1. (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage.
2. Capable of being shaped; malleable.
3. (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
4. (computer science, of a decision problem) Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
5. (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched.

Example Sentences

Some masters can be quite kind if you're meek and tractable.

"Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me."

I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness.

Of all the tractable, equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so.

Synonyms for tractable

Depending on context, synonyms include docile, manageable, governable, amenable, biddable, compliant.

Antonyms for tractable

Common opposites include intractable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include docile, manageable, amenable, teachable, responsive, tamable.

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