Tractable

Word TRACTABLE
Character 9
Hyphenation tract a ble
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Tractable"

What do we mean by tractable?

Easily managed or controlled; governable. adjective

Easily handled or worked; malleable. adjective

Capable of being touched, handled, or felt; palpable.

Easily handled or wrought.

Hence Manageable; governable; easily led; docile; pliant.

Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable. adjective

Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible. adjective

Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable. adjective

Capable of being shaped; malleable. adjective

Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution. adjective

Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time. adjective

Readily reacting to suggestions and influences adjective

Easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) adjective

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

(of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage

Capable of being shaped; malleable.

Capable of being handled or touched.

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

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

Easy to control or influence Urban Dictionary

ADJ: Used to describe the effectiveness of methods used to trace and track down criminals. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Tractable

The word "tractable" in example sentences

I was what they call a tractable child, being, in fact, too little interested in the world as it was to resent any duties cast upon me. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

Interestingly, many pop boooks say the opposite; Oriental sighthounds, huskies, laikas are not neccessarily "tractable"-- they figure things out, and you must work with them. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He did not become docile by any means, but he was tractable, which is to say that he did as he was bidden with a minimum of urging; he was intelligent, divining, and learned quickly. ❋ Charles Alden Seltzer (1908)

The concluding phrase seems admirably chosen, when we consider the means of making people "tractable" which the magistrates of the Bay had in their hands, and were not slow to exercise, as Underhill himself had experienced. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

Many experts say that Armenia still has forces that are more realistic about the situation in the country and may be more "tractable" in dialogue with Turkic neighbors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While not the only possible way of measuring a concept as multifaceted as religiosity, the index is an empirically tractable, conceptually coherent, and intuitively compelling method of doing so. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Meeker believed that if he got rid of their horses the Utes would be more tractable. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

Actually acourding to my thesaurus it is but no matter feel free to subsutute any of the following terms if you like. circumscribed, limited, restricted, tractable, accountable, complaisant, compliant, restricted, submissive, yielding the result is the same in any case. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When you talk to market participants, they use words like beautiful, simple, and, most commonly, tractable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Training,” on the other hand, “is for slaves, for loyal subjects, for tractable employees, for willing consumers, for obedient soldiers.” ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

The issues appeared more tractable: how to deal with excessive housing debt in the United States, how to deal with adjustment in countries at the periphery of the Euro area, how to handle volatile capital inflows to emerging economies, and how to improve financial sector regulation. ❋ Olivier Blanchard (2011)

But the problem may become tractable if one imposes a number of simplifying constraints. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

The man, despite his jaw and the steady brown eyes, was eminently tractable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Orwell's novel, the physically strongest character is Boxer, the horse, who proves loyal to power and tractable to policy under any circumstances. ❋ Gabriel Schivone (2012)

But it would pretty much take a miracle for our intractable problems to become tractable. ❋ Marty Kaplan (2011)

The naturally aspirated BMW engine was so tractable the car could accelerate from 30-225 mph in sixth gear. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

"Yo that bitch is so tractable if you get her drunk. Sucked me off [so easy]. By the way that bitch is your [kuti] [ami]" ❋ Shahum Ajmal (2013)

[Commissioner], we [commend] you for the [tractability] of this operation. ❋ KEkdisone (2022)

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