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
They’d take those objects — which may have been hard to study on their own — and break them into combinatorial pieces that were more tractable.
A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World | Kevin Hartnett | December 16, 2020 | Quanta MagazineMore inspiring is to say why the problem is in fact more tractable than it seems—as long as you believe that, of course.
How to pitch and write an opinion piece for MIT Technology Review | Amy Nordrum | October 15, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThat, Let’s Fund says, “makes this much more politically tractable than carbon taxes.”
Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money. | Sigal Samuel | September 17, 2020 | VoxTo avoid this problem, the researchers came up with several shortcuts and simplifications that help focus on the most important interactions, making the calculations tractable while still providing a precise enough result to be practically useful.
New Algorithm Paves the Way Towards Error-Free Quantum Computing | Edd Gent | August 14, 2020 | Singularity HubTheorists have explored these situations most thoroughly, in part because they are the only examples tractable with chalkboard mathematics.
The GOP donor class quietly favors the president's immigration ideas as a source of cheaper and more tractable workers.
They were now quite tractable and never persisted in doing anything against our wishes.
The man grinned, and, though Alfreton remembered that he was not usually so tractable with him, proceeded to do Winston's bidding.
Winston of the Prairie | Harold BindlossIt was very tractable and gentle in its temper, and never took advantage of the partiality shown to it.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisWhen in masses they are the quietest and most tractable workmen it is possible to have to deal with.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. StreetThe Paca very easily becomes domesticated, and is very gentle and tractable, unless when much irritated.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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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