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tractable

[ trak-tuh-buhl ]
/ ˈtræk tə bəl /
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adjective

easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
easily worked, shaped, or otherwise handled; malleable.

Words related to tractable

amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, ductile, facile, flexible, game, governable, malleable, meek, obedient, persuadable, plastic, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tame, willing

Words nearby tractable

trackway, track‐train dynamics, tract, tract house, tract society, tractable, tractarian, tractarianism, tractate, tractile, traction

Origin of tractable

1495–1505; < Latin tractābilis, equivalent to tractā(re) to handle, deal with (frequentative of trahere to draw) + -bilis -ble

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British Dictionary definitions for tractable

tractable
/ (ˈtræktəbəl) /

adjective

easily controlled or persuaded
readily worked; malleable

Derived forms of tractable

tractability or tractableness, nountractably, adverb

Word Origin for tractable

C16: from Latin tractābilis, from tractāre to manage, from trahere to draw
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