tractable adj

1 easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler [syn: manipulable] [ant: intractable]

2 readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student" [syn: responsive, amenable]

English

Adjective

tractable

1. Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures.

   "I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness." - Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.

Related terms

• tractability
• tractableness
• tractably

References

Tractable may mean

• Operation Tractable, a military operation in Normandy 1944
• Tractability concerning how easily something can be done
  • an example of such analysis is in computational complexity theory
  • another involves the use of mathematical closed-form expressions

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