teachable
[tee-chuh-buh l]
- capable of being instructed, as a person; docile.
- capable of being taught, as a subject.
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Origin of teachable
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for teachable
Contemporary Examples
And so now we need to remember a very wise maxim: A teachable moment only has value if you are willing to be taught.
The students, a handful of them Democratic activists, nod appreciatively at what the president might call a “teachable moment.”
I realize what clearly many others seem to forget—that not every moment is a teachable one.
It takes far less than 46 days for a teachable moment to devolve into an airing of fetid undercurrents from the American id.
“This is a teachable moment for the White House,” Garrett said.
Historical Examples
Virtue is no sooner discovered to be teachable, than the discovery follows that it is not taught.
MenoPlato
She was quite a little lady, so gentle, teachable, and well mannered.
Sketches of Our Life at SarawakHarriette McDougall
I see it does indeed need to be approached in a teachable spirit.
True to his ColoursTheodore P. Wilson
Nor does Protagoras deny that men are teachable and modifiable.
Yet there are opposing reasons, showing that it cannot be teachable.
Word Origin and History for teachable
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper