HANDLEABLE Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

handleable

adjective

Definition of handleable

as in manageable

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Adjective

In the restaurant’s first few weeks, a line for tables stretched down the block, but waits are more manageable now.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026
Giving yourself the space to settle down and consider your options can make the process feel more manageable.

— Kriti Kumar, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of manageable

Adjective

External control arms, comparative effectiveness studies against real-world standard of care, post-market expansions of indication and broader safety analyses all become more tractable.

— David Talby, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
After decades of mathematicians spinning their wheels, the problem suddenly seemed tractable.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 May 2026

Definition of tractable

Adjective

What happened to that docile small-town bunch that was once embarrassingly soft?

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
The models in the film, meanwhile, run the spectrum from docile to diva — including Evangelista, who’s entreating the camera with an impish smile even while having a little fit backstage.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of docile

Adjective

The debate was somewhat tamer than the two candidates' first faceoff earlier this month, which featured insults and interruptions in virtually every answer.

— Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Higher prices put the Fed in a bind to keep interest rates elevated to tame inflation.

— Paulina Likos, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of tame

Adjective

Then someone decides what the right answer is, usually pulling in product or legal, before it gets written, approved, built into something teachable and scheduled into a session competing with everything else on the calendar.

— Snehal Nimje, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
While this may seem incongruous with some of his emotional displays on the field, coaches with different backgrounds and specialties have consistently described Crow-Armstrong as approachable and teachable.

— Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of teachable

Adjective

Nervous system training has moved from clinical biofeedback labs to everyday wrist wearables, with brands like Oura, WHOOP and Apollo Neuro reframing stress as a trainable fitness metric.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
The infrastructure layer that makes those models trainable, specifically, the physical world data supply chain, remains underfunded relative to the problem size.

— Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of trainable

Adjective

In tandem, waivers for non-compliant materials will stop being available unless there are active efforts to qualify a domestic or allied source.

— Yardley Pohl, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Accessibility The hotel includes several ADA-compliant rooms with roll-in showers and wide entrances.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

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