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US
/ˈtɹæktəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /tɹˈæktəbəl/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈæktəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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responsive to suggestions and influences
a tractable student
an amenable child -
easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
tractable young minds
the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition
How To Use tractable In A Sentence
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- This pattern has developed into a state that conflict scholars label intractable and that mathematicians call an attractor: the Israel-Palestinian conflict has thus become an intractable attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
- She was brave, but she was also intractable, when she set her mind on something.
- Referral for intrathecal administration is useful in rare instances, such as when pain is intractable to standard treatment.
- The observers of this law may be called sociable, (the Latins call them commodi); the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable. Leviathan
- When Dana reached her side, he realized that she was intractable.
- Objective To assess the value of ictal video-electroencephalography monitoring (IVEEG) in presurgical evaluation for medically intractable nonlesional temporal lobe epilepsy(TLE).
- On the contrary, they are among the most tractable of dogs.
- Behind West, the retractable path that led to the elevator retracted, leaving them stranded on the circular platform.
- All seats have full three-point retractable safety belts.