tractable
/'træktəbl/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Easily managed, controlled, or taught: Describes a person, animal, or thing that is docile, compliant, or easy to guide, instruct, or handle.
- Easily worked, shaped, or processed: Refers to a material, such as metal or clay, that is malleable or easy to manipulate.
Examples of Usage
- Describing a person or personality:
- The new student was tractable and eager to learn.
- She has a tractable disposition, making her a great team member.
- Describing a material:
- Gold is a highly tractable metal for jewelry making.
- The clay was tractable enough for the potter to shape it easily.
Advanced Usage
- "Tractable to": Susceptible or responsive to a particular treatment or influence.
- This mathematical problem is tractable to a simple solution.
- The disease proved tractable to the new medication.
Variants and Related Words
- Tractability (noun): The quality of being tractable.
- The dog's tractability made it an excellent candidate for training.
- Intractable (adjective): The opposite of tractable; hard to manage, control, or solve.
- The intractable child refused to follow any instructions.
- They faced an intractable problem with no clear solution.
Synonyms
- Manageable: Capable of being managed or controlled.
- Docile: Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive.
- Pliable: Easily bent or influenced.
- Malleable: Easily shaped or molded (for materials); adaptable (for people).
Antonyms
- Intractable: Difficult to manage or control.
- Stubborn: Having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position.
- Refractory: Stubborn or unmanageable.
Adjective
- readily reacting to suggestions and influences
- a responsive student
- easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
- tractable young minds
- the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition- Samuel Butler