tractile

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Late Latin tractilis (“that can be dragged or pulled”) + English -ile (suffix meaning ‘capable of; tending to’). Tractilis is derived from Latin tractus + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives from the perfect passive participles of verbs); and tractus is the perfect passive participle of trahō (“to drag, pull; to draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæktaɪl/, /-tl̩/, /-tɪl/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹækˌtaɪl/, /-t(ə)l/ Hyphenation: tract‧ile === Adjective === tractile (comparative more tractile, superlative most tractile) Capable of being drawn or stretched out in length. Synonyms: ductile, tensile Antonyms: intractile, irretractile Pertaining to traction or pulling. Synonyms: tractional, tractive 1860, Henry David Thoreau, Journal entry dated 25 March, 1860, in Bradford Torrey (ed.), The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, December 1, 1859–July 31, 1860, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906, p. 221,[1] The sleighing, the sledding, or sliding, is gone. We now begin to wheel or roll ourselves and commodities along, which requires more tractile power. (dated) Capable of being guided, influenced, or led. Synonyms: tractable; see also Thesaurus:moldable, Thesaurus:obedient (obsolete, rare) Of financial assets: able to be drawn or procured from a place of deposit; liquid. ==== Derived terms ==== intractile tractility ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === artilect, clattier, tetrical