Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

tractable

/ˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/ adjective

  1. adjective (of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.
  2. adjective (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage.
  3. adjective Capable of being shaped; malleable.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched.
  5. adjective (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
  6. adjective (computer science, of a decision problem) Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

Synonyms

docile manageable governable amenable biddable complaisant compliant controllable indulgent maniable meek passive pliant rulable yielding palpable practicable feasible serviceable manipulable

Antonyms

intractable

Etymology

From Middle English tractable, tractabel, from Latin tractābilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tractō (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trahō (“draw”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.
  2. adjective Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] Holder. --Tract"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tract"a/bly, adv.

Etymology [L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to draw violently, to handle, treat. See Treat, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tractable”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “tractable” (best matches first).

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