Tractable
WordNet
adjective
(1) Readily reacting to suggestions and influences
"A responsive student"
(2) Easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
"Tractable young minds"
"The natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
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Etymology
From < , freq. of
Adjective
- Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures.
- "I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness." - Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
- Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.
- Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.