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Definition: Tractile |
TractileAdjective1. Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Tractile \Tract"ile\, adjective. [Latin expression trahere, tractum, to draw.]. (references) |
Synonyms: TractileSynonyms: ductile (adj), malleable (adj), pliable (adj), pliant (adj), tensile (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regression | Adjective: drawing; Verb: tractile, tractive. |
Softness | Adjective: soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile, tractable; malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic; aluminous; remollient. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tractile |
| English words defined with "tractile": Intractile, Irretractile ♦ Tractility. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "tractile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i zgjatshëm (extendible, extensile, protractile, tensile). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجرور (cloaca). (various references) | |
French | tractif, tracté (tractor, walking tractor). (various references) | |
Greek | επεκτατόσ (prolongable), ελατόσ (ductile, malleable, tractable). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyújtható (distensible, ductile, malleable, tensile). (various references) | |
Manx | so-obbraghys (tractability), so-ghleashit (tractability), so-choyrlit (tractability, weak morally). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actiletray.(various references) | |
Russian | тягучий (malleable, stringy, viscous), вытягивающийся. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rastegljiv (dilatable, dilative, distensible, ductile, expansible, flexible). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dễ vuốt d i, dễ kéo d i. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tractile": contractile, nonretractile, protractile, retractile. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tractile" (pronounced 'Tract"ile'): Agile, Anile, Attractile, Axile, Bevile, Contractile, Debile, Facile, Flabile, flexile, Fluxile, fragile, indocile, Protractile, retractile, sterile, strobile, Whetile, Whitile. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: article, cattier, citrate, clatter, lattice, recital, tactile, tertial. | |
-2 letters: atelic, attire, cartel, cattie, cattle, citral, claret, eclair, lacier, latter, litter, ratite, rattle, rectal, relict, retail, retial, rictal, tailer, tectal, tilter. | |
-3 letters: alert, alter, areic, ariel, artel, atilt, attic, caret, carle, carte, cater, ceria, citer, clear, cleat, crate, eclat, erica, ileac, irate, lacer, later. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: lateritic, triticale. | |
+2 letters: articulate, centralist, centrality, clattering, recitalist, reticulate, retractile, testicular, theatrical, triplicate, triticales, wildcatter. | |
+3 letters: altercating, altercation, anticruelty, articulated, articulates, centralists, centripetal, clarinetist, contractile, crystallite, curtailment, felicitator, intercalate, intercostal, intractable, intrathecal, intricately, latticework, matriculate, obstetrical, particulate, peristaltic, protractile, recitalists, recommittal, recultivate, reluctating, reluctation, reticulated, reticulates, rickettsial, straitlaced, strategical, teratologic, theatricals, theoretical, triplicated, triplicates, verticality, wildcatters. | |
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