| Pronunciation: | | 'traktubul
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| Matching Terms: | | tractableness
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- [adj] susceptible to suggestion; "a personality responsive to your desires"
- [adj] easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
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| | Synonyms: | | amenable, docile, ductile, malleable, manageable, responsive, tamable, tameable, teachable |
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| | Antonyms: | | intractable |
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| | See Also: | | compliant, obedient, tame, tamed |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Tract"a*ble\, a. [L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to
draw violently, to handle, treat. See {Treat}, v. t.]
1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile;
manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a
tractable learner.
I shall find them tractable enough. --Shak.
2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible;
as, tractable measures. [Obs.] --Holder.
--{Tract"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Tract"a/bly}, adv.
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