TRACTABLE

amenable, tractable

(adjective) responsive to suggestions and influences; “a tractable student”; “an amenable child”

tractable, manipulable

(adjective) easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); “tractable young minds”; “the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition”- Samuel Butler

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

tractable (comparative more tractable, superlative most tractable)

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

Synonyms: docile, manageable, governable

(of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage

Capable of being shaped; malleable.

(obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched.

Synonyms: palpable, practicable, feasible, serviceable

(mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.

(computer science) Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

Antonyms

• intractable

Source: Wiktionary

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Tract"a*ble, a. Etym: [L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to draw violently, to handle, treat. See Treat, v. t.]

1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak.

2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] Holder. --Tract"a*ble*ness, n.

– Tract"a/bly, adv.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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