tractable
/ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
adj
Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
Example Sentences
- ""Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me.""
- "But once in London Jane Porter was no more tractable than she had been in Baltimore. She found one excuse after another, […]"
- "I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness."
- "Of all the tractable, equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so."
- "[T]his matter of the vanishing bridge must have been arranged in order to put him in a properly subdued and tractable frame of mind."
- "Some masters can be quite kind if you're meek and tractable."
Etymology
From Middle English tractable, tractabel, from Latin tractābilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tractō (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trahō (“draw”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: tractable, tractābilis
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/
- British English: /ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more tractable (comparative)
most tractable (superlative)