Definition of Tractable

1. Adjective. Easily managed (controlled or taught or molded). "The natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"


2. Adjective. Readily reacting to suggestions and influences. "A responsive student"
Exact synonyms: Amenable
Similar to: Susceptible
Derivative terms: Amenability, Amenableness, Tractability, Tractableness

Definition of Tractable

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

Definition of Tractable

1. Adjective. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable. ¹

2. Adjective. Capable of being shaped; malleable. ¹

3. Adjective. (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; serviceable.(R:Webster 1913) ¹

4. Adjective. (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution. ¹

5. Adjective. (computer science) Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tractable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tractable

trackway
trackways
trackwidth
trackwidths
trackwork
tract
tract home
tract homes
tract house
tract housing
tract of Goll
tract of Munzer and Wiener
tract of Schutz
tractabilities
tractability
tractable (current term)
tractableness
tractablenesses
tractably
tractate
tractates
tracted
tractellum
tractile
tractility
tracting
traction
traction alopecia
traction atrophy
traction diverticulum

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