tractable in English dictionary

  • tractable

    Meanings and definitions of "tractable"

    • Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable.
    • Capable of being shaped; malleable.
    • (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; serviceable.
    • (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
    • (computer science) Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
    • adjective
      Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable.
    • adjective
      Capable of being shaped; malleable.
    • adjective
      (obsolete)
      Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; serviceable.tractable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
    • adjective
      (mathematics)
      Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
    • adjective
      (computer science)
      Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
    • Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible.
    • capable of being easily led
    • capable of being handled or touched
    • adjective
      easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
    • adjective
      responsive to suggestions and influences; "a tractable student"; "an amenable child"

    Synonyms of "tractable" in English dictionary

    malleable, manipulable, teachable are the top synonyms of "tractable" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "tractable" in English dictionary

    intractable is the antonym of "tractable" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of tractable

    • tractable ( comparative more tractable, superlative most tractable)
    • tractable (comparative more tractable, superlative most tractable)
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