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Definition: Manageable |
ManageableAdjective1. Easy to handle or use or manage; "a large but wieldy book". 2. Capable of being managed or controlled. 3. Easily dealt with; "manageable problems". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "manageable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonym: ManageableSynonym: wieldy (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: unmanageable (adj), unwieldy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Facility | Manageable, wieldy; towardly, tractable; submissive; yielding, ductile; suant; pliant; (soft); glib, slippery; smooth; on friction wheels, on velvet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Manageable |
| English words defined with "manageable": brilliantine ♦ directed, docility ♦ Honors are easy ♦ manageably, Maniable ♦ Sequacious ♦ Treatable ♦ Water-logged. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "manageable": Flupenthixol ♦ Graphics Interchange Format ♦ major manageable accident, MATHEMATICAL TECHNICIAN. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "manageable": Wieldy. (references) |
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High Tech |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Figure 42. A BBT-Neyrpic current recorder made between 1950 and 1952 as the result of a collaboration between the companies of Barbier, Benard & Turenne and Nepyric. The official test of this instrument was in the Gulf of Sfax about 1951 in four meters of water. This instrument had higher precision and was more manageable than many of its predecessors, but abandoned photographic recording. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | All of these are manageable and preventable problems. (references) | |
Being open about your emotions can make them seem more manageable. (references) | ||
The complications of gestational diabetes are manageable and preventable. (references) | ||
Children | Hungary | This measure was intended to force children to go to school, but some Romani NGO's fear that this may be another form of discrimination against Roma, many of whom live in small villages with no high schools within manageable distance. (references) |
Economic History | Kazakhstan | This amounts to 69% of GDP, well within manageable levels. (references) |
Russia | However, the majority of companies rated the issue of crime and corruption as manageable or better. (references) | |
Human Rights | Venezuela | Conditions in some prisons became more humane and manageable during the year as overcrowding lessened; however, overcrowding in other prisons was so severe as to constitute inhuman and degrading treatment. (references) |
Political Economy | MEXICO | These are considered manageable numbers by most financial analysts. (references) |
TUNISIA | Outstanding foreign debt at the end of 2000 was $10.1 billion, with debt service payments totaling $1.85 billion, a manageable burden for Tunisia. (references) | |
Travel | Peru | Peruvian medical facilities do not generally meet U.S. standards, although some private clinics do. However, if visitors take certain precautions about food and drink, the level of risk is manageable. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | When I held the little guy fo the first time, the troubles at home and abroad seemed manageable, and totally in perspective. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Manageable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.74% of the time. "Manageable" is used about 387 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.74% | 386 | 14,302 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 387 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "manageable": major manageable accident ♦ manageable dictionary ♦ of manageable size. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
manageable | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "manageable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i drejtueshëm (dirigible, navigable), i dëgjueshëm (amenable, audible, ductile, obedient, sequacious), i bindur (biddable, certain, cocksure, committed, compliant, convinced, dedicated, docile, ductile, obedient, sequacious, submissive, well-behaved, wieldy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مطيع (compliant, conformable, dutiful, obedient, submissive), لين العريكة (compliance, compliant, docility, ductile, pliable, tractable), لين (clemency, ductile, elastic, flabbiness, flabby, flaccid, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, lax, laxity, lenience, leniency, limp, limpness, loose, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, mellow, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), سهل المناورة, سهل القياد, طيع (biddable, docile, malleable, plastic, pliable, tractable). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | укротим, сговорчив (accommodating, appeasable, facile, tractable), лесно управляем, податлив (accessible to, amenable, apt, ductile, flexible, malleable, pervious, pliable, pliant, supple, susceptible, yielding). (various references) | |
Chinese | "处理. (various references) | |
Czech | ovladatelný (governable). (various references) | |
Danish | manoevredygtigt fartoej (manageable vessel, steerable vessel), større ulykke,som ikke overstiger beredskabets formåen (major manageable accident). (various references) | |
Dutch | handelbaar (accommodating, good-hearted, tractable). (various references) | |
Esperanto | akordiĝema (tractable). (various references) | |
Farsi | کنترل پذیر, قابل اداره کردن , رام (Docile, Domestic, Inward, Meek, Obedient, Tame). (various references) | |
Finnish | sävyisä (docile, even-tempered, meek, mild, tractable). (various references) | |
French | maniable, conciliant. (various references) | |
German | handlich (handily, handy, manageably, maneuverable, natty). (various references) | |
Greek | εύκολος (easy, facile), εύχρηστος (handy), ευχείριστοσ (easy to handle, wieldy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שאפשר ל "לו. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vezethető (dirigible), nevelhető, kivihető, kezelhetõ (operable), kezelhető (biddable, docile, handleable, supple, ticklish, tractable, treatable), keresztülvihető (feasible, practicable), irányítható (amenable, dirigible, governable, guided), engedelmes (biddable, conformable, deferential, dutiful, mindful, obedient, observant, submissive, subservient, tame), engedékeny (acquiescent, complacent, complaisant, compliant, facile, forgiving, gracious, indulgent, lenient, permissive, placating, pliant, submissive, tractable, unresisting, yielding). (various references) | |
Icelandic | meðfærilegur (tractable). (various references) | |
Italian | maneggevole (handy, maneuverable, manoeuvrable, wieldy), trattabile (amenable, negotiable, tractable, treatable), agevole (easy). (various references) | |
Korean | 다루기 쉬운. (various references) | |
Manx | so-stiurey, reiragh (administrative, executive, managerial, ordering, powerful). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anageablemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | manobrável (doable, maneuverable, manoeuvrable, workable), manejável (controllable, doable, operated, workable), tratável (accessible, tractable), sociável (chummy, clubbable, companionable, conversable, livable, liveable, neighborly, neighbourly, sociable), dócil (amenable, biddable, docile, facile, gentle, kind, meek, obedient, submissive, tractable, yielding). (various references) | |
Romanian | maniabil, uşor de mânuit (handy, tractable), realizabil (acceptable, achievable, feasible, obtainable, performable, realizable, workable), posibil (contingent, eventual, feasible, maybe, possible, possibly, presumably), flexibil (ductile, flexible, flexile, inflected, limber, pliable, pliant, supple, willowy, yielding), docil (amenable, docile, meek, obedient, teachable, tractable, yielding), ascultãtor (amenable, auditor, docile, duteous, dutiful, hearer, listener, obedient, obediential, obediently, supple, tractable, yielding). (various references) | |
Russian | сговорчивый (appeasable, suasable, suasible, tractable), послушный (amenable, biddable, docile, duteous, gentle, governable, obedient, sequacious, tractable, wieldly), поддающийся управлению. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokoran (amenable, conformable, humble, malleable, meek, obedient, servile, submissive, subservient, tractable), podesan za rukovanje, koji se može podesiti, izvodljiv (deducible, doable, feasible, practicable, reproducible). (various references) | |
Spanish | manejable (tractable). (various references) | |
Swedish | spak (handspike, lever), hanterlig. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งสามารถจั"การไ"้ง่าย. (various references) | |
Turkish | uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding), kullanışlı (all purpose, available, convenient, flowing, functional, general purpose, handy, operable, practicable, practical, purposive, serviceable, useful), idare edilebilir (controllable, dirigible, governable, guidable). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смирний, зговірливий (appeasable, lithe, pliable, tractable, wilful, willful), легко керований (handy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dễ sử dụng, dễ dùng (tractable, wieldy), có thể trông nom có thể điều khiển, có thể sai khiến dễ cầm, có thể quản lý. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tractabilem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "manageable": manageableness, manageablenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "manageable": unmanageable. (additional references) | |
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"Manageable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: managable, manageble. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "manageable" (pronounced ma"nijubul) |
| 9 | m a" n i j u b u l | unmanageable. |
| 6 | -i j u b u l | ineligible, salvageable. |
| 5 | -j u b u l | changeable, chargeable, eligible, exchangeable, fungible, illegible, incorrigible, tangible, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, knowledgeable, negligible, rechargeable, unintelligible. |
| 4 | -u b u l | incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, inedible, ineffable, inequitable, inescapable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, acceptable, accessible, abominable, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admirable, admissible, adoptable, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, attainable, attributable, audible, available, avoidable, bankable, bearable, believable, billable, biodegradable, breakable, buildable, burnable, callable, cannibal, capable, charitable, classifiable, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, countable, credible, creditable, crucible, culpable, curable, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, degradable, delectable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, developable, digestible, disagreeable, discernible, discountable, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, drinkable, drivable, durable, eatable, edible, electable, Embraceable, employable, enforceable, enjoyable, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, erodible, estimable, excitable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, exportable, extendable, extendible, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, formidable, fusible, gullible, habitable, harvestable, heritable, hon, honorable, horrible, hospitable, identifiable, imaginable, imitable, immiscible, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incredible, soluble, solvable, spendable, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, talkable, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inscrutable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, insupportable, insurmountable, interminable, interruptible, intolerable, intractable, invaluable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, justifiable, lamentable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, mandible, maneuverable, marketable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, moldable, movable, navigable, negotiable, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palatable, palpable, parable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, predictable, preferable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, punishable, questionable, quotable, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, receivable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, redoubtable, reducible, refundable, regrettable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repairable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, salable, saleable, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, sizable, sizeable, sociable, tolerable, traceable, tractable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, tunable, typeable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbeatable, unbelievable, unbuildable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, uninsurable, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstoppable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, variable, vegetable, venerable, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, washable, wearable, winnable, workable. |
| 3 | -b u l | able, amble, assemble, babble, Babel, bauble, bible, bramble, bubble, Bumble, cable, cobble, coble, corbel, crumble, cymbal, dabble, Dibble, disable, disassemble, dissemble, double, Drabble, dribble, enable, enfeeble, ennoble, ensemble, fable, feeble, foible, fumble, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, hardscrabble, herbal, hobble, humble, ignoble, immeasurable, immobile, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, symbol, table, intertribal, jumble, kibble, label, libel, marble, mislabel, mobile, mumble, nibble, nimble, noble, nonverbal, pebble, preamble, psychobabble, quibble, rabble, ramble, reassemble, rebel, redouble, relabel, resemble, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, shamble, Sibyl, thimble, timetable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, turntable, umbel, unable, unscramble, unserviceable, unstable, valuable, verbal, wamble, wobble. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-e-e-g-l-m-n" | |
-2 letters: amenable, nameable. | |
-3 letters: amebean, gamelan, gleeman, malanga, melange, namable. | |
-4 letters: agleam, ambage, amebae, ameban, anlage, bagman, bagmen, baleen, bangle, beagle, bemean, bename, enable, enamel, galeae, galena, gamble, glebae, legman, legmen, manage, manege, mangel, mangle, menage. | |
-5 letters: abeam, abele, agama, agene, aglee, alane, alang, algae, amble, ameba, anele, angel, angle, bagel, banal, began, belga, blame. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-e-e-g-l-m-n" | |
+2 letters: unmanageable. | |
+4 letters: manageableness. | |
+5 letters: manageabilities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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