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Synonyms

manageable

American  
[man-i-juh-buhl] / ˈmæn ɪ dʒə bəl /

adjective

  1. that can be managed; tractable; governable; achievable.


manageable British  
/ ˈmænɪdʒəbəl /

adjective

  1. able to be managed or controlled

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Other Word Forms

  • manageability noun
  • manageableness noun
  • manageably adverb
  • unmanageability noun
  • unmanageable adjective
  • unmanageableness noun
  • unmanageably adverb

Etymology

Origin of manageable

First recorded in 1590–1600; manage + -able

Example Sentences

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Mr Dissman said winter weather could turn a manageable day into something extremely dangerous very quickly.

From BBC

The amount itself is manageable, though makes a material change to the company’s balance sheet that previously didn’t carry any significant debt.

From Barron's

Like simplified classroom models that capture only part of a real system, earlier approaches relied on assumptions that made the calculations manageable but incomplete.

From Science Daily

The Collegiate—an abridged, more manageable version of the company’s gargantuan International edition—was introduced in 1898 and had been revised roughly every decade thereafter.

From The Wall Street Journal

She’d always thought of the loans as her responsibility to repay, but she struggled to make enough money to afford them and to navigate the options available that could have made the loans more manageable.

From MarketWatch