Meaning | easily managed (controlled or taught or molded). |
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Examples | - "tractable young minds"
- "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
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Synonym | manipulable |
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Attribute of | tractability, tractableness, flexibility | The trait of being easily persuaded |
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Narrower | docile, teachable | Ready and willing to be taught |
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ductile, malleable | easily influenced |
tamable, tameable | capable of being tamed |
See also | compliant | disposed or willing to comply |
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docile | willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed |
manageable | capable of being managed or controlled |
obedient | dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority |
tame, tamed | Brought from wildness into a domesticated state |
Opposite | intractable | not tractable |
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Spanish | tratable |
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Catalan | tractable |
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Nouns | tractability, tractableness | the trait of being easily persuaded |
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