tractable

Meaning

Adjective

• Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.
• Easy to deal with or manage
• Capable of being shaped; malleable.
• Capable of being handled or touched.
• Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
• Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

Related

Opposite words

• intractable

Origin

• From Middle English tractable, tractabel, from Latin tractābilis ("that may be touched, handled, or managed"), from tractō, frequentative of trahō.