LekhoriLekhoriCapable of being easily led, taught, or managed.
"Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me."
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.
Capable of being shaped; malleable.
I need not point out the advantages of modelling in a material as durable as stone. . . . Mixed up with just enough water to form a stiff paste, it accommodates itself to the touch of the modelling tool. . . . There are two inherent difficulties in using it—one, it is not so tractable as clay. . . .
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”).
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