Word of the Day

tractable \TRAK-tuh-buhl\, adjective:
1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile.
2. Easily handled, managed, or worked; malleable.

I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness.
--Mary Wollstonecraft, [1] A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

He thought that our temperaments are at least partly innate: "Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable."
--Jonathan Weiner, [2] Time, Love, Memory

Alice gets out her calculator and begins solving what, for her, is a far more tractable kind of problem.
--Stephen S. Hall, "The Smart Set," [3] New York Times Magazine, June 4, 2000