tractable

1. (of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.Examples: ""Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me.""; "But once in London Jane Porter was no more tractable than she had been in Baltimore. She found one excuse after another, […]"Synonyms: docile, manageable, governable

2. (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage.Examples: "I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness."; "Of all the tractable, equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so."; "[T]his matter of the vanishing bridge must have been arranged in order to put him in a properly subdued and tractable frame of mind."

3. (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched.Examples: "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 : [...]"Synonyms: palpable, practicable, feasible, serviceableobsolete

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

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