[ US /ˈtɹæktəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈæktəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. responsive to suggestions and influences
    a tractable student
    an amenable child
  2. easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
    tractable young minds
    the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition
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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.
  • 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.
  • It was caused by me stupidly putting a retractable pen in my pocket - the ink soaked into the fabric.
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