1400-1500Latintractabilis, from tractare ‘to draw out, handle, treat’, from trahere ‘to pull’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
The country's economic problems are less tractable than first thought.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Fortunately, some scientists saw them as posing tractable scientific questions and offering new insights.
If any of these are found to be tractable, then they all are.
Republicans are clearly more tractable than in the last Congress, when they insisted on a large tax cut or nothing.
The development of a natural language interface to a database has proved to be more tractable than other applications.
The horse would instantly change from placid and tractable to anxious and difficult!
easy to control or deal withOPP intractable: The issues have proved to be less tractable than expected.—tractability /ˌtræktəˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountable]