docile, easily managed
/easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
SYN - manipulable
"The natives....being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"
readily reacting to suggestions and influences
SYN - amenable
ANT - balking, refractory, uncontrollable, unmalleable
"He new how important it was for him to have some sort of grounding which would allow him to be decisive about his life, but at the same time make sure that his mind was always tractable."
"she suffered from closing up and no longer being tractable - it was what gave her strength and kept her down."
"The material was tractable enough that he was able to make really cool shapes out of it."
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