Definitions of manipulable
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easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
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synonyms:
tractable
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compliant
disposed or willing to comply
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manageable
capable of being managed or controlled
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obedient
dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority
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docile
willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
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tame, tamed
brought from wildness into a domesticated state
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ductile, malleable
easily influenced
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docile, educable, teachable
ready and willing to be taught
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tamable, tameable
capable of being tamed
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Antonyms:
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intractable
not tractable; difficult to manage or mold
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defiant, noncompliant
boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
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difficult, unmanageable
hard to control
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disobedient
not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority
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obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate
tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
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untamed, wild
in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
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balking, balky
stopping short and refusing to go on
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refractory, stubborn
not responding to treatment
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uncontrollable, unmanageable
difficult to solve or alleviate
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unmalleable
difficult or impossible to shape or work
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compliant
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