tractable


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Synonyms for tractable

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Synonyms for tractable

willing to carry out the wishes of others

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Synonyms for tractable

easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

readily reacting to suggestions and influences

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That moment marked the beginning of a new existence for the poor thoats, and before I left the community of Lorquas Ptomel I had the satisfaction of observing a regiment of as tractable and docile mounts as one might care to see.
We had one prisoner, as I have said, and it was a long time before we could make him understand anything; but in time our men taught him some English, and he began to be a little tractable. Afterwards, we inquired what country he came from; but could make nothing of what he said; for his speech was so odd, all gutturals, and he spoke in the throat in such a hollow, odd manner, that we could never form a word after him; and we were all of opinion that they might speak that language as well if they were gagged as otherwise; nor could we perceive that they had any occasion either for teeth, tongue, lips, or palate, but formed their words just as a hunting-horn forms a tune with an open throat.
David's Hall, Gerald, he may be a more tractable person.
I felt him become suddenly tractable again like an animal, like a good-tempered horse when the object that scares him is removed.
Norris thought with greater satisfaction of their benevolent plan; and it was pretty soon decided between them that, though far from clever, she showed a tractable disposition, and seemed likely to give them little trouble.
He is tractable; and as I made him turn round and change his feet, I found him quick and ready in doing so."
He is more tractable now, and we are going to release him, for he has assured us that he will not permit his fellows to harm us.
But once in London Jane Porter was no more tractable than she had been in Baltimore.
Females are often more tractable than males, however, and thus are easier to train, but in addition to the strength and endurance difference, females that are carrying or nursing calves can't stand up to heavy workloads.
These compounds are members of DELs synthesized from many hundreds of distinct chemical scaffolds, designed with tractable chemistry, and yielding proven results for the discovery of small molecule leads against precedented and unprecedented classes of biological targets.
Al'umma who once represented the federal constituency of Yola South and Yola North during the military era said the Fulbe people have decided their votes for Buhari/Bindo because of the tractable records for the sake of humanity.
The newly approved varieties include Kornait (peach), Snata Marya and Hosi (pear), Asolpas Jaba and Jabba Enterprises (apple), Sirpo Maria Kaghan (potato), Kunhar Palsta (French bean), Pakhal Ganait (garlic), Qayyum 2018 (maize), Pashta 2018 (wheat), Qaswa 2018 (wheat tractable), Awaz 2018 (wheat), NIFA Mong 18 (mongbean), Laintal 2018 (masoor/lentil), Indus 2017 (Desi Chak P), C-S 240 (maize), C-S 5800 (maize), Zinkol 2016 (wheat) and Faisalabad 2008 (wheat).
And so, it's as tractable as a Toyota Camry's V-6 a until you ask it to be more than tractable.
This question appears to be at the same time formally tractable and philosophically significant.