tractable

tractable
    adj 1: easily managed (controlled or taught or molded);
           "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an
           intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler [syn:
           {tractable}, {manipulable}] [ant: {intractable}]
    2: readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive
       student" [syn: {amenable}, {tractable}]
    

Tractable \Tract"a*ble\, a. [L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to
   draw violently, to handle, treat. See {Treat}, v. t.]
   1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile;
      manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a
      tractable learner.
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            I shall find them tractable enough.   --Shak.
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   2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible;
      as, tractable measures. [Obs.] --Holder.
      [1913 Webster] --{Tract"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Tract"a/bly},
      adv.
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101 Moby Thesaurus words for "tractable":
      acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, agreeable,
      alacritous, amenable, ardent, bendable, bending, biddable,
      complaisant, compliant, conformable, consenting, content,
      convenient, cooperative, disposed, docile, ductile, eager,
      easygoing, elastic, enthusiastic, extensible, extensile,
      fabricable, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed,
      favorably inclined, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous,
      foolproof, formable, formative, forward, game, giving, governable,
      handleable, handy, impressible, impressionable, in the mind,
      in the mood, inclined, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe,
      lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, minded, moldable,
      obedient, other-directed, persuadable, persuasible, plastic,
      pliable, pliant, practical, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick,
      ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, sensitive,
      sequacious, shapable, springy, subdued, submissive, supple,
      susceptible, tame, tractile, untroublesome, well-disposed,
      well-inclined, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willed, willing,
      willinghearted, willowy, workable, yielding, zealous