MANIPULABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manipulable mean? 

• MANIPULABLE (adjective)
  The adjective MANIPULABLE has 1 sense:

1. easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

  Familiarity information: MANIPULABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANIPULABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

Synonyms:

manipulable; tractable

Context example:

the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition

Similar:

ductile; malleable (easily influenced)

docile; teachable (ready and willing to be taught)

tamable; tameable (capable of being tamed)

Also:

compliant (inclined to comply)

manageable (capable of being managed or controlled)

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

docile (willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed)

tame; tamed (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)

Attribute:

flexibility; tractability; tractableness (the trait of being easily persuaded)

Derivation:

manipulability (the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands)