tractable
/ˈtraktəb(ə)l
/adjective
1(Of a person) easy to control or influence: she has always been tractable and obedient, even as a child...
- Humans would have selected (and been more able to control) animals with neotenic variations because they were more tractable.
- In either case, I'm sad about the state of things: I'd like to see more men take up writing; and I'd liked to think that men are more tractable, more teachable than it appears we are.
- The enemy is more tractable if he is confused about the source of the attack and thinks it may be coming from his next-door neighbor.
Synonyms
controllable, manageable, malleable, governable, yielding, amenable, complaisant, compliant;
adjustable;
docile, submissive, obedient, tame, meek, easily handled, biddable, persuadable, persuasible, accommodating, trusting, gullible, dutiful, willing, unassertive, passive, deferential, humble, obsequious, servile, sycophantic
1.1(Of a situation or problem) easy to deal with: trying to make the mathematics tractable...
- While very difficult to retrofit, this is a tractable problem for a ground-up system design.
- But if 90% of what he does is positive, which it is, then that seems like a tractable problem to me.
- The method is computationally intensive, but for tractable cases it is the method of choice.
Derivatives
tractability
- For its part, the Council will put in place proper recycling facilities with tractability and accountability to ensure best environmental practice and reuse of scarce resources.
- He added that this is undermining the confidence consumers have in the quality and tractability of Irish potatoes with potentially very damaging consequences for growers.
- You should always be able to provide tractability for all feed purchased on your farm.
tractably
- And if time permits we will discuss the case of sparse high dimensional data and the computational issues in tractably building very large probabilistic models from such data.
- This talk is about recent work on new ways to exploit preprocessed views of data tables for tractably solving big statistical queries.
- Thus our work enables experts in other fields to accurately and tractably mine massive data streams in their area of interest.
tractableness
Origin
Early 16th century: from Latin tractabilis, from tractare 'to handle' (see tractate).