tractable
1. readily reacting to suggestions and influences
- a responsive student
• Syn:
amenable
• Similar to:
susceptible
• Derivationally related forms:
tractableness, tractability, amenability (for: amenable), amenableness (for: amenable)
2. easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
- tractable young minds
- "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
• Syn:
manipulable
• Ant:
intractable
• Similar to:
ductile, malleable, docile, teachable, tamable, tameable
• See Also:
compliant, docile, manageable, obedient, tame, tamed
• Derivationally related forms:
manipulability (for: manipulable), tractableness, tractability
• Attrubites:
tractability, tractableness, flexibility
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