Tractable

Definition: Tractable

Tractable

Adjective

1. Easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler.

2. Susceptible to suggestion; "a personality responsive to your desires".

Date "tractable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Tractable \Tract"a*ble\, adjective. [Latin expression tractabilis, fr, tractare to draw violently, to handle, treat. See Treat, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Math	Given three posts (towers) and n disks of decreasing sizes, move the disks from one post to another one at a time without putting a larger disk on a smaller one. The minimum is 2n-1 moves. The "ancient legend" was invented by De Parville in 1884. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Tractable

Synonym: responsive (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: intractable (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Facility	Manageable, wieldy; towardly, tractable; submissive; yielding, ductile; suant; pliant; (soft); glib, slippery; smooth; on friction wheels, on velvet.
Softness	Adjective: soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile, tractable; malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic; aluminous; remollient.
Willingness	Docile; persuadable, persuasible; suasible, easily persuaded, facile, easy-going; tractable; (pliant); genial, gracious, cordial, cheering, hearty; content; (assenting).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tractable

English words defined with "tractable": domesticate, domesticise, domesticize ♦ intractable ♦ Orderable ♦ Regible ♦ tame, The gentle craft, Toward, Treatable, Tretable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tractable": Transport, in Plasmas. (references)

Etymologies containing "tractable": intractable ♦ Orderable ♦ Tractate, Treatable. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Machine Tractable Dictionaries: Design and Construction (Computer Engineering and Computer Science) (reference) Tractable Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	While the men were milking the boys would take turns in riding the tractable mare round the field.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Tractable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.96% of the time. "Tractable" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.96%	48	49,194
Noun (proper)	2.04%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	49	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tractable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i shtruar (docile, extended, extending, in-patient, paved), i përpunuar (elaborate, labored, laboured, outgoing, processed). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممكن حله, ‏لين العريكة (compliance, compliant, docility, ductile, manageable, pliable), ‏قابل للحل (dissolvable, soluble), ‏قابل للطرق (malleable), ‏سهل الإ نقياد (gentle), ‏طيع (biddable, docile, malleable, manageable, plastic, pliable). (various references)

Bulgarian		сговорчив (accommodating, appeasable, facile, manageable), хрисим (amenable, pi, quiet, submissive), ковък (ductile, forgeable, malleable, pliable, soft), гъвкав (elastic, facile, flexible, light-heeled, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, sinuous, snaky, soft, supple, svelte, versatile, willowy), възприемчив (acquisitive, capacious, clearheaded, impressionable, open minded, receptive, recipient, susceptible, susceptive), послушен (amenable, biddable, gentle, good, governable, obedient, submissive, tame, toward, unresisting), поддаващ се на обработка. (various references)

Chinese		温顺 (Docile, meek, meekness, tractability). (various references)

Czech		tvárný (plastic), uèenlivý (teachable), povolný (acquiescent, compliant, conforming, docile, pliable, pliant, supple), kujný (ductile, malleable, soft). (various references)

Dutch		handelbaar (accommodating, good-hearted, manageable). (various references)

Esperanto		akordiĝema (manageable). (various references)

Farsi		نرم (Downy, Effeminate, Fine, Floppy, Levigate, Limber, Lithe, Mellow, Plastic, Pliant, Silken, Silky, Sleek, Slick, Smooth, Soft, Spongy, Suave, Supple, Velvet), سست مهار, سربراه (Docile), رام کردنی , رام شو. (various references)

Finnish		sävyisä (docile, even-tempered, manageable, meek, mild), helposti johdettava (easily led). (various references)

French		conciliant. (various references)

German		lenkbar (dirigible, dirigibly, flexible, guidable, guided, navigable, steerable, tractably). (various references)

Greek		ευάγωγοσ (governable, wieldy), ελατόσ (ductile, malleable, tractile), ήμεροσ (meek). (various references)

Hebrew		ממושמע (disciplined, obedient), מקבל מרות (amenable, disciplined, docile, obedient, submissive), צית� י (docile, obedient, submissive), � �"יל (governable). (various references)

Hungarian		jól megmunkálható, hajlékony (ductile, flexible, limber, limp, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, pliable, pliant, supple, willowy, yielding), engedékeny (acquiescent, complacent, complaisant, compliant, facile, forgiving, gracious, indulgent, lenient, manageable, permissive, placating, pliant, submissive, unresisting, yielding). (various references)

Icelandic		meðfærilegur (manageable). (various references)

Italian		trattabile (amenable, manageable, negotiable, treatable), docile (amenable, biddable, docile, governable, lamblike, meek, soft, tame, workable). (various references)

Pig Latin		actabletray

Portuguese		tratável (accessible, manageable), maleável (ductile, fictile, malleable, pliable, pliant, supple), dócil (amenable, biddable, docile, facile, gentle, kind, manageable, meek, obedient, submissive, yielding), afável (affable, benign, debonair, friendly, kind, soft). (various references)

Romanian		uşor de mânuit (handy, manageable), suplu (elastic, flexible, flexile, graceful, light, lissom, lithe, slender, slim, supple, willowy, yielding), maleabil (amenable, easy, flexibile, flexile, malleable, pliable, pliant, soft, unctuous, yielding), docil (amenable, docile, manageable, meek, obedient, teachable, yielding), blând (benign, bland, Clement, docile, dovelike, easy-tempered, fair, genial, gentle, gently, good hearted, good natured, harmless, lenient, meek, mild, mildly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, placable, silken, soft, steady, sweet, tame, tender), ascultãtor (amenable, auditor, docile, duteous, dutiful, hearer, listener, manageable, obedient, obediential, obediently, supple, yielding). (various references)

Russian		послушный (amenable, biddable, docile, duteous, gentle, governable, manageable, obedient, sequacious, wieldly). (various references)

Scottish		soitheamh (affable, docile, tame). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prilagodljiv (adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, self-adaptive, versatile), poslušan (docile, obedient, obsequious, sequacious), pokoran (amenable, conformable, humble, malleable, manageable, meek, obedient, servile, submissive, subservient). (various references)

Spanish		tratable (compatible, sociable), manejable (manageable), dócil (amenable, biddable, compliant, docile, gentle, manageable, meek, mild, obedient, pliable, pliant, tame, yielding). (various references)

Swedish		lätthanterlig (wieldy). (various references)

Turkish		uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, yielding), söz dinler (obedient), işlenebilir (cultivable, farmable, forgeable, penetrable, workable). (various references)

Ukrainian		слухняний (amenable, biddable, conformable, docile, dutiful, governable, kind, mild, obedient, obediential, obeisant, obsequious, passive, toward), зговірливий (appeasable, lithe, manageable, pliable, wilful, willful). (various references)

Vietnamese		dễ xử lý, dễ l� m, dễ dạy (toward, towards), dễ dùng (manageable, wieldy), dễ bảo (docile, meek, obedient, obsequious, tame). (various references)

Welsh		hywedd (trained), hydyn (docile), hydrin (amenable, docile). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tractabilem, tractabilis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tractable": tractableness, tractablenesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "tractable": abstractable, distractable, extractable, intractable, retractable. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tractable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rectable, tracable, trackable, tracktable, tractacble, tractible. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tractable" (pronounced tra"ktubul)
9	t r a" k t u b u l	intractable, retractable.
6	-k t u b u l	collectible, deductible, delectable, detectable, electable, indestructible, injectable, nondeductible, predictable, respectable, uncollectible, undetectable, unelectable, unpredictable.
5	-t u b u l	acceptable, accountable, adaptable, adjustable, adoptable, attributable, charitable, comfortable, compatible, constable, contemptible, contestable, convertible, copyrightable, countable, creditable, debatable, digestible, discountable, disreputable, eatable, equitable, excitable, exportable, forfeitable, forgettable, habitable, harvestable, heritable, hospitable, imitable, immutable, imperceptible, implantable, incompatible, incontrovertible, indisputable, indomitable, inequitable, inevitable, inexhaustible, inflatable, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, inscrutable, insupportable, insurmountable, interruptible, investable, irrefutable, irresistible, irritable, lamentable, marketable, nonconvertible, notable, palatable, patentable, perceptible, portable, potable, presentable, preventable, printable, profitable, prosecutable, quotable, redoubtable, regrettable, rentable, repeatable, reportable, reputable, resettable, suggestible, suitable, supportable, susceptible, transmittable, transportable, treatable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unbeatable, uncomfortable, unforgettable, uninhabitable, unpalatable, unprintable, unprofitable, unsuitable, unsupportable, vegetable, veritable.
4	-u b u l	abominable, accessible, achievable, actionable, addressable, admirable, admissible, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, attainable, audible, available, avoidable, bankable, bearable, believable, billable, biodegradable, breakable, buildable, burnable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, classifiable, collapsible, Combinable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, consumable, controllable, credible, crucible, culpable, curable, defensible, definable, degradable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, determinable, developable, disagreeable, discernible, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, drinkable, drivable, durable, edible, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enforceable, enjoyable, enviable, equable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, extendable, extendible, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, forcible, foreseeable, forgivable, formidable, fungible, fusible, gullible, hon, honorable, horrible, identifiable, illegible, imaginable, immiscible, immovable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, impermissible, implacable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incorrigible, incredible, incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indispensable, indistinguishable, indivisible, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inescapable, inexcusable, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflexible, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, intolerable, invaluable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, issuable, justifiable, knowledgeable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, moldable, movable, navigable, negligible, negotiable, noncallable, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palpable, parable, passable, payable, peaceable, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, possible, practicable, preferable, probable, programmable, provable, punishable, questionable, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, reducible, refundable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, repairable, repayable, replaceable, reprehensible, resealable, responsible, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, salable, saleable, salvageable, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, sizable, sizeable, sociable, soluble, solvable, spendable, submersible, survivable, sustainable, syllable, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, tolerable, traceable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, tunable, typeable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbelievable, unbuildable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstoppable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, variable, venerable, verifiable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, washable, wearable, winnable, workable.
3	-b u l	able, amble, assemble, babble, Babel, bauble, bible, bramble, bubble, Bumble, cable, cobble, coble, corbel, crumble, cymbal, dabble, Dibble, disable, disassemble, dissemble, double, Drabble, dribble, enable, enfeeble, ennoble, ensemble, fable, feeble, foible, fumble, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, hardscrabble, herbal, hobble, humble, ignoble, immeasurable, immobile, intertribal, jumble, kibble, label, libel, marble, mislabel, mobile, mumble, nibble, nimble, noble, nonverbal, pebble, preamble, psychobabble, quibble, rabble, ramble, reassemble, rebel, redouble, relabel, resemble, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, shamble, Sibyl, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, symbol, table, thimble, timetable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, turntable, umbel, unable, unscramble, unserviceable, unstable, valuable, verbal, wamble, wobble.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-l-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: bracteal, bractlet, cabretta, cartable.
	-2 letters: abettal, abreact, actable, battler, bearcat, blatter, brattle, cabaret, clatter, lactate, ratable, tabaret, teacart.
	-3 letters: abater, ablate, acetal, arable, batter, battle, cablet, carate, cartel, cattle, claret, labret, latter, rattle, rectal, tablet, tectal.
	-4 letters: abate, abler, acerb, aceta, alate, alert, altar, alter, areal, areca, artal, artel, attar, baler, betta, blare, blate.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-l-r-t-t"
	+2 letters: extractable, intractable, retractable, trabeculate.
	+3 letters: abstractable, abstractedly, contrastable, distractable, traceability.
	+4 letters: antibacterial, bathymetrical, tractableness.
	+5 letters: antibacterials, antitubercular, contradictable, extractability, traceabilities, tractabilities.
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