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tractable

adjective

(of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.

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Word length
9
Starts with
T
Ends with
E
Contains
RA
Scrabble score
13

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/ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/ /ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/

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adjective

  1. (of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.

  2. (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage

  3. Capable of being shaped; malleable.

  4. Capable of being handled or touched.

  5. Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.

  6. Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

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