tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butlercompliant - disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will" manageable - capable of being managed or controlled obedient - dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke docile - willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" tamed, tame - brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" intractable - not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal" |