Definition of "tractable" [tract•a•ble]

• Easily managed or controlled; governable. (adjective)
• Easily handled or worked; malleable. (adjective)

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• "I was what they call a tractable child, being, in fact, too little interested in the world as it was to resent any duties cast upon me."
• "Interestingly, many pop boooks say the opposite; Oriental sighthounds, huskies, laikas are not neccessarily "tractable"-- they figure things out, and you must work with them."
• "He did not become docile by any means, but he was tractable, which is to say that he did as he was bidden with a minimum of urging; he was intelligent, divining, and learned quickly."