English Dictionary

tractable

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/

形容詞

人間対象 of 句 廃用 前置詞句

(of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed. / (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage / Capable of being shaped; malleable. / (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched.

日本語の意味

（人に対して）従順で、容易に導かれ、教えられ、または管理される / （問題に対して）対処や管理が容易な / 形を変えやすい、柔軟で成形しやすい / (古語) 触れる・扱うことができる

The new teacher found her students surprisingly tractable, responding quickly to gentle guidance.

新任の先生は、生徒たちが驚くほど素直で教えやすく、穏やかな指導にすぐに反応するのを見つけた。

意味（1）

(of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.

Tess is queer. But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me.

意味（2）

(of a problem) 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.

意味（3）

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. . . .

意味（4）

(obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched.

At leaſt five Hundred of theſe reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ranſacking our Houſes, leaving me ſometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ſo much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : …

意味（5）

(mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.

This assumption is in the Raiffa and Schlaifer (1961, p. 72) spirit of using ‘a little ingenuity. . . to find a tractable function’ to quantify risk-preferences and probability judgments so as to make the analysis feasible.

意味（6）

(computer science, of a decision problem) Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

more tractable （ comparative ）

most tractable （ superlative ）