Tractable is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRACTABLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.
• Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures.
ADJECTIVE:
• docile, easily managed
• (of a person) easy to control or influence
• (of a situation or problem) easy to deal with
• easy to manage or control
• easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
• readily reacting to suggestions and influences
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• capable of being easily led, taught, or controlle; docile

Words related to TRACTABLE

tractably16

Words that contain TRACTABLE

attractable15 extractable22 intractable15 retractable15 untractable15 abstractable18 contractable18 distractable17 tractableness17 intractableness19 tractablenesses19 untractableness19

How to use TRACTABLE in a sentence

• Another effect of this humane treatment had been, that these slaves were among the most orderly and tractable in that island.
• His wife is ill, his six children far from tractable, and in worldly affairs he himself is a child.
• I believed my superior Understanding would form him into a tractable Creature.
• The pleasurable emotions which my impending liberation aroused within me served to soften my speech and render me more tractable.
• The mass of the people, with as little energy, have more obstinacy, and are, of course, not quite so tractable.
• She found the little lord attentive, tractable, and repentant, and, what might not have been expected, exceedingly ingenious and intelligent.
• Two sheep dogs followed her growling, but at her command grew tractable and made no demonstration beyond running around the doctor and sniffing at his legs.
• This action rendered the Gauls all the more tractable.
• Kate, without intruding on her sitting-room, for Kate was tractable, would be there at meals to support her.
• Harbison did to him, but for twenty-four hours he was quite tractable.
• Disinterested and energetic she certainly is, and if she be not quite so tractable or open to conviction as I could wish, I must remember perfection is not the lot of humanity.
• He became quiet and tractable, never manifesting the furious symptoms before observed.
• Here she remained for months before she became sufficiently tractable to be taken to her home and cared for by friends.
• It had always been known as a particularly intelligent and tractable beast.
• In order to render me more tractable, he brought me to this country house.
• They were submissive, tractable, and wholly dependent upon his will and generosity.
• Gomaldo was intensely excited and upbraided Sam bitterly when taken before him, but upon being promised good treatment he became more tractable.
• Bent on retaining her influence by the choice of a tractable queen, she spoke to Alberoni of the urgent necessity of finding another bride for the disconsolate king.
• The runaway had done so well, had been so industrious, and shown such a tractable spirit, that he had been very much encouraged about him.
• I abolished corporeal punishment entirely, and was so successful that boys, ungovernable at home, were altogether tractable.
• Birdsall, the agent, was very tractable about the kitchen, sending men the second day to paint it.
• The truth is that they are singularly tractable and docile when their reason can be effectively appealed to.
• It is one of those books which depend upon individual will and feeling, rather than upon a broad subject founded in nature and tractable by the largest laws of art.
• Among animals we find the carnivorous the most vicious and destructive, while those which subsist upon vegetable foods are by nature gentle and tractable.
• She reproached her tractable and distressed little General with having encouraged her to walk much too far.
• Having the misfortune to be taken by the corsairs, and to see himself reduced to slavery, he found means to make those Turkish and savage men tractable, by his skill at chess.
• After his hearty supper he seemed to be quite tractable and permitted Mr.
• There they all live together, and for that reason they have to be courteous and obliging and tractable toward one another.
• For the animal, having in her pain become more tractable, now stood perfectly still and permitted the rough artist to do anything he wanted to with her.
• He and she must try to wait in patience, until politics took such a turn as would drive Lentulus into a more tractable attitude.
• To be enabled to acquire, the people, without being servile, must be tractable and obedient.
• Malcolm finds him a much more tractable pupil than one we know of, to whom he tried to do his duty many years ago.

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