tractable.

1. Easy to manage, guide, or persuade rather than resistant to direction.

2. Manageable with available methods of reasoning, computation, or practical solution.

3. Readily worked, shaped, or manipulated as a material.

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Words that belong together

• a tractable pupil
• a tractable temperament

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The tractable pupil followed the method but questioned the result.

They mistook her tractable manner for agreement with every instruction.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more tractable; superlative most tractable where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.