tractable
easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
easily worked, shaped, or otherwise handled; malleable.
Origin of tractable
1Other words for tractable
Opposites for tractable
Other words from tractable
- trac·ta·bil·i·ty, trac·ta·ble·ness, noun
- trac·ta·bly, adverb
- non·trac·ta·bil·i·ty, noun
- non·trac·ta·ble, adjective
- non·trac·ta·ble·ness, noun
- non·trac·ta·bly, adverb
- un·trac·ta·bil·i·ty, noun
- un·trac·ta·ble, adjective
- un·trac·ta·ble·ness, noun
- un·trac·ta·bly, adverb
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How to use tractable in a sentence
This capability of dispensing with a generally untractable element of support was felt to be a great comfort.
The Prime Minister | Anthony TrollopeHe again abandoned the reins of his war horse, and wrung bitterly the hands, which his mail gloves rendered untractable.
Quentin Durward | Sir Walter ScottTo which of those happy propositions is your Duke so much wedded that contradiction will make him unreasonable and untractable?
Quentin Durward | Sir Walter ScottMay it never be my lot to have a wise fool for my friend; nothing is more untractable.
I assure you that it is hard work, because these feelings of ours are such intangible, untractable things!
Life of John Coleridge Patteson | Charlotte M. Yonge
British Dictionary definitions for tractable
/ (ˈtræktəbəl) /
easily controlled or persuaded
readily worked; malleable
Origin of tractable
1Derived forms of tractable
- tractability or tractableness, noun
- tractably, adverb
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