tractable
Meanings
Adjective
- easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); ; - Samuel Butler
- "tractable young minds"
- "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"
Adjective Satellite
- readily reacting to suggestions and influences
Adj
- Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.
- 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.
- Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English tractable, tractabel, from Latin tractābilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tractō (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trahō (“draw”).
Synonyms
amenable, docile, feasible, governable, manageable, manipulable, palpable, practicable, serviceable
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
tractable is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordtractable is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tractable is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary