Usually means: Easily managed or done; feasible.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word tractable:

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  1. tractable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tractable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tractable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tractable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tractable: Vocabulary.com
  6. tractable: Wordnik
  7. tractable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tractable: Wiktionary
  9. tractable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tractable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tractable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tractable: Dictionary.com
  13. tractable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Tractable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Tractable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tractable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tractable: Rhymezone
  18. Tractable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tractable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. tractable: Free Dictionary
  21. tractable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. tractable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tractable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tractable: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tractable: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.
adjective:  (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage
adjective:  Capable of being shaped; malleable.
adjective:  (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched.
adjective:  (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
adjective:  (computer science, of a decision problem) Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

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