tractable /ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/ adjective6 •Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed."Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me." — 1891 •Easy to deal with or manage.I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness. — 1791 •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. •Capable of being shaped; malleable. •(no longer used) Capable of being handled or touched. formsmore tractable · most tractable