英语词汇“tractable”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

If your little brother quietly obeys your instructions and waits for you at the food court while you and your friends wander around the mall, he's probably a tractable child, meaning he's obedient, flexible, and responds well to directions.

Note the similarity between tractable and tractor. Both come from the Latin word tractare, which originally meant "to drag about." You can think of a tractable person as someone who can be dragged about easily, like a plow being dragged by a tractor.

WORD FAMILY

tractable: intractable, tractability, tractableness, tractably+/intractability: intractabilities/intractable: intractability, intractableness, intractably/tractability: tractabilities

USAGE EXAMPLES

Feedback is turning the incalculable Trump into a tractable, potentially successful president.

Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016)

Several advances over the past decade have made it vastly more tractable to solve fundamental problems such as how we recognize objects or make decisions.

Nature(Nov 07, 2016)

One example: If the first rep isn’t proving tractable enough, hang up and dial again and try your luck with another.

Wall Street Journal(Sep 20, 2016)

1adj easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

tractable young minds
"the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler

Syn|Ant

manipulable
compliant

disposed or willing to comply

manageable

capable of being managed or controlled

obedient

dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority

docile

willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

tame, tamed

brought from wildness into a domesticated state

ductile, malleable

easily influenced

docile, teachable

ready and willing to be taught

tamable, tameable

capable of being tamed

intractable

not tractable; difficult to manage or mold

defiant, noncompliant

boldly resisting authority or an opposing force

difficult, unmanageable

hard to control

disobedient

not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority

obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate

tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

untamed, wild

in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated

balking, balky

stopping short and refusing to go on

refractory, stubborn

not responding to treatment

uncontrollable, unmanageable

difficult to solve or alleviate

unmalleable

difficult or impossible to shape or work

2adj readily reacting to suggestions and influences

Syn

amenable
susceptible

(often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of

单词	tractable
释义	tractable (once / 2589 pages) adj If your little brother quietly obeys your instructions and waits for you at the food court while you and your friends wander around the mall, he's probably a tractable child, meaning he's obedient, flexible, and responds well to directions. Note the similarity between tractable and tractor. Both come from the Latin word tractare, which originally meant "to drag about." You can think of a tractable person as someone who can be dragged about easily, like a plow being dragged by a tractor. WORD FAMILY tractable: intractable, tractability, tractableness, tractably+/intractability: intractabilities/intractable: intractability, intractableness, intractably/tractability: tractabilities USAGE EXAMPLES Feedback is turning the incalculable Trump into a tractable, potentially successful president. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) Several advances over the past decade have made it vastly more tractable to solve fundamental problems such as how we recognize objects or make decisions. Nature(Nov 07, 2016) One example: If the first rep isn’t proving tractable enough, hang up and dial again and try your luck with another. Wall Street Journal(Sep 20, 2016) 1adj easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) tractable young minds "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler Syn\|Ant manipulable compliant disposed or willing to comply manageable capable of being managed or controlled obedient dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority docile willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed tame, tamed brought from wildness into a domesticated state ductile, malleable easily influenced docile, teachable ready and willing to be taught tamable, tameable capable of being tamed intractable not tractable; difficult to manage or mold defiant, noncompliant boldly resisting authority or an opposing force difficult, unmanageable hard to control disobedient not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield untamed, wild in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated balking, balky stopping short and refusing to go on refractory, stubborn not responding to treatment uncontrollable, unmanageable difficult to solve or alleviate unmalleable difficult or impossible to shape or work 2adj readily reacting to suggestions and influences Syn amenable susceptible (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
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