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tractable
adjective
1 tractable
Easily managed (controlled or taught or molded):
— Tractable young minds.
— The natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition.
synonym: manipulable.
Roget 602:
willing,
minded,
fain,
disposed,
inclined,
favorable;
favorably-minded,
favorably inclined,
favorably disposed;
nothing loth;
in the vein,
in the mood,
in the humor,
in the mind.
ready,
forward,
earnest,
eager;
bent upon
etc.
(desirous)
865;
predisposed,
propense†.
docile;
persuadable,
persuasible;
suasible†,
easily persuaded,
facile,
easy-going;
tractable
etc.
(pliant)
324;
genial,
gracious,
cordial,
cheering,
hearty;
content
etc.
(assenting)
488.
voluntary,
gratuitous,
spontaneous;
unasked
etc.
(ask)
etc.
765;
unforced
etc.
(free)
748.
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Roget 705:
easy,
facile;
feasible
etc.
(practicable)
470;
easily managed,
easily accomplished;
within reach,
accessible,
easy of access,
for the million,
open to.
manageable,
wieldy;
towardly†,
tractable;
submissive;
yielding,
ductile;
suant†;
pliant
etc.
(soft)
324;
glib,
slippery;
smooth
etc.
255;
on friction wheels,
on velvet.
unembarrassed,
disburdened,
unburdened,
disencumbered,
unencumbered,
disembarrassed;
exonerated;
unloaded,
unobstructed,
untrammeled;
unrestrained
etc.
(free)
748;
at ease,
light.
[able to do easily]
at home with;
quite at home;
in one's element,
in smooth water;
skillful
etc.
698;
accustomed
etc.
613.
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Roget 324:
soft,
tender,
supple;
pliant,
pliable;
flexible,
flexile;
lithe,
lithesome;
lissom,
limber,
plastic;
ductile;
tractile†,
tractable;
malleable,
extensile,
sequacious†,
inelastic;
aluminous†;
remollient†.
yielding
etc.
v.;
flabby,
limp,
flimsy.
doughy,
spongy,
penetrable,
foamy,
cushiony†.
flaccid,
flocculent,
downy;
edematous,
oedematous†,
medullary [Anat.],
argillaceous,
mellow.
soft as butter,
soft as down,
soft as silk;
yielding as wax,
tender as chicken.
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2 tractable
Responsive to suggestions and influences:
— A tractable student.
synonym: amenable.
Moby thesaurus: acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, ardent, bendable, bending, biddable, complaisant, compliant, conformable, consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, disposed, docile, ductile, eager, easygoing, elastic, enthusiastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, foolproof, formable, formative, forward, game, giving, governable, handleable, handy, impressible, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, minded, moldable, obedient, other-directed, persuadable, persuasible, plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, subdued, submissive, supple, susceptible, tame, tractile, untroublesome, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy, workable, yielding, zealous ... show more.
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