tractable• Fortunately, some scientists saw them as posingtractablescientific questions and offering new insights.• The country's economic problems are less tractable than first thought.• Republicans are clearly more tractable than in the last Congress, when they insisted on a large tax cut or nothing.• The development of a naturallanguageinterface to a database has proved to be more tractable than other applications.• If any of these are found to be tractable, then they all are.• The horse would instantly change from placid and tractable to anxious and difficult!
Origintractable
(1400-1500)Latintractabilis, from tractare“to draw out, handle, treat”, from trahere“to pull”