adj. easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler

adj. readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student"

adj. having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office"

adj. quick to comply; "I have been to you a true and humble wife, at all times to your will conformable"-Shakespeare

adj. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"

adj. disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion"

adj. inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"

adj. (compliant)

adj. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"

adj. disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will"

adj. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"

adj. capable of being managed or controlled

adj. 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

adj. brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"

adj. liable to be called to account: "you are amenable for this debt"; "is it to be contended that the heads of departments are not amenable to the laws?"- John Marshall;

adj. capable of being or liable to be subjected to judgment or test: "amenable to a small-scale form of enquiry"; "amenable data"; "elasticity as a parameter of fluids which is not subject to simple measurement at present"

adj. not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal"