MANAGEABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manageable mean? 

• MANAGEABLE (adjective)
  The adjective MANAGEABLE has 2 senses:

1. capable of being managed or controlled

2. capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do

  Familiarity information: MANAGEABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANAGEABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being managed or controlled

Similar:

administrable (capable of being administered or managed)

controllable; governable (capable of being controlled)

directed (manageable by a supervising agent)

dirigible; steerable (capable of being steered or directed)

Also:

compliant (inclined to comply)

obedient (dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority)

manipulable; tractable (easily managed (controlled or taught or molded))

Antonym:

unmanageable (hard to control)

Derivation:

manage (be in charge of, act on, or dispose of)

manage (watch and direct)

manageability; manageableness (capable of being managed or controlled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do

Synonyms:

accomplishable; achievable; doable; manageable; realizable

Similar:

possible (capable of happening or existing)

 Context examples 

We might be able to turn cancer into a manageable chronic disease, like diabetes.

(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Compared to intravenously administered ixabepilone, the oral formulation provides a more manageable way to administer this agent.

(Oral Ixabepilone, NCI Thesaurus)

Included is the entire range of conditions in a manageable number of categories, grouped to facilitate mortality reporting.

(International Classification of Diseases, NCI Thesaurus)

This suited the young lady better than twilight confidences, tender pressures of the hand, and eloquent glances of the eye, for with Jo, brain developed earlier than heart, and she preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He petted and soothed them, and whispered something in their ears, as I have heard of horse-tamers doing, and with extraordinary effect, for under his caresses they became quite manageable again, though they still trembled.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)