tractable
easily managed, controlled, or shaped
Word origin: From Latin tractare, to handle or manage.
Tractable in a sentence
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Once the data set was simplified, the problem became far more tractable.
By restating the equation in dimensionless form, the researchers made an intractable problem suddenly tractable.
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Modern editors have softened many passages that earlier audiences accepted without protest, finding blank what their grandparents had regarded as merely robust and good-humored.
Using “tractable” well
Tractable means easily managed, controlled, or shaped, whether describing a person or a problem. It is the direct opposite of intractable, its own negated form, and of unruly.
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