to be as tractable as a child

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• tractable — tractability, tractableness, n. tractably, adv. /trak teuh beuhl/, adj. 1. easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition. 2. easily worked, shaped, or otherwise handled; malleable. [1495 1505; < L… …   Universalium

• obedient — obedient, docile, tractable, amenable, biddable mean submissive to the will, guidance, or control of another. Though applied chiefly to persons, they are sometimes extended to things. Obedient implies due compliance with the commands or requests… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Decomposition method (constraint satisfaction) — In constraint satisfaction, a decomposition method translates a constraint satisfaction problem into another constraint satisfaction problem that is binary and acyclic. Decomposition methods work by grouping variables into sets, and solving a… …   Wikipedia

• docile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. gentle, tractable, teachable, submissive. See consent, submission. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. meek, mild, tractable, compliant, obedient, amenable, pliant, submissive, accommodating, complying,… …   English dictionary for students

• science, philosophy of — Branch of philosophy that attempts to elucidate the nature of scientific inquiry observational procedures, patterns of argument, methods of representation and calculation, metaphysical presuppositions and evaluate the grounds of their validity… …   Universalium

• obedient — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin oboedient , oboediens, from present participle of oboedire to obey Date: 13th century submissive to the restraint or command of authority ; willing to obey • obediently adverb… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• trac´ta|ble|ness — trac|ta|ble «TRAK tuh buhl», adjective. 1. easily managed or controlled; easy to deal with; docile: »a tractable child. Dogs are more tractable than cats. SYNONYM(S): compliant, manageable. 2. easily handled or worked: »Tractable metals can be… …   Useful english dictionary

• trac|ta|ble — «TRAK tuh buhl», adjective. 1. easily managed or controlled; easy to deal with; docile: »a tractable child. Dogs are more tractable than cats. SYNONYM(S): compliant, manageable. 2. easily handled or worked: »Tractable metals can be hammered and… …   Useful english dictionary

• Western sculpture — ▪ art Introduction       three dimensional artistic forms produced in what is now Europe and later in non European areas dominated by European culture (such as North America) from the Metal Ages (Europe, history of) to the present.       Like… …   Universalium

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• Personality Disorders —    Even though upsetting behavior is as old as the human condition, systematic attention to disorders of the personality appears relatively late in the development of psychiatry. On the whole, the asylum generation of psychiatrists had little to… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry