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placid
English
Etymology
From French placide, from Latin placidus (“peaceful, calm, placid”), from place? (“please, satisfy”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?plæs.?d/
- Rhymes: -æs?d
Adjective
placid (comparative placider, superlative placidest)
- calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
- a placid disposition
- a placid lake
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
Derived terms
- placidness
- placidity
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French placide
Adjective
placid m or n (feminine singular placid?, masculine plural placizi, feminine and neuter plural placide)
- placid
Declension
Related terms
- placiditate
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tractable
English
Etymology
From Latin tract?bilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tract? (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trah? (“draw”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?t?æk.t?.b?l/
Adjective
tractable (comparative more tractable, superlative most tractable)
- (of people) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.
- Synonyms: docile, manageable, governable
- (of a problem) Easy to deal with or manage
- 1839, Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 61:
- Of all the tractable, equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so.
- 1839, Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 61:
- Capable of being shaped; malleable.
- 1866, P. Le Neve Foster, "Report on the Art-Workmanship Prizes", reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts, March 2, 1966:
- I need not point out the advantages of modelling in a material as durable as stone. . . . Mixed up with just enough water to form a stiff paste, it accommodates itself to the touch of the modelling tool. . . . There are two inherent difficulties in using it—one, it is not so tractable as clay. . . .
- 1866, P. Le Neve Foster, "Report on the Art-Workmanship Prizes", reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts, March 2, 1966:
- (obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched.
- Synonyms: palpable, practicable, feasible, serviceable
- 1707, Thomas Brown, "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical, part three, page 184:
- At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
- (mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
- 1987, Ira Horowitz, "Market Structure Implications of Export-Price Uncertainty," Managerial and Decision Economics, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 134:
- 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.
- 1987, Ira Horowitz, "Market Structure Implications of Export-Price Uncertainty," Managerial and Decision Economics, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 134:
- (computer science, of a decision problem) Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
Antonyms
- intractable
Related terms
- tractability
- tractableness
- tractably
Translations
References
- tractable at OneLook Dictionary Search
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