gentle vs tractable

gentle

adj
  • Docile and easily managed. 

  • Soft and mild rather than hard or severe. 

  • Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition. 

  • Polite and respectful rather than rude. 

  • Gradual rather than steep or sudden. 

noun
  • A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil. 

  • A maggot used as bait by anglers. 

verb
  • To break; to tame; to domesticate. 

  • To soothe; to calm; to make gentle. 

  • To become gentle. 

tractable

adj
  • Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed. 

  • Easy to deal with or manage 

  • Capable of being shaped; malleable. 

  • Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution. 

  • Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time. 

How often have the words gentle and tractable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )