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tractable.

Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation
  1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.

  2. Easy to deal with or manage.

  3. Capable of being shaped; malleable.

  4. Capable of being handled or touched.

    obsolete
  5. Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.

  6. Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English tractable, tractabel, from Latin tractābilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tractō (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trahō (“draw”).

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