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teachable
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective teachable has 1 sense
- teachable(s = adj.all) docile - ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" Derived forms verb teach2, verb teach1
CIDE DICTIONARY
teachable, a.
Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile. [1913 Webster]
"We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
teachable, adj.
1 apt at learning.
2 (of a subject) that can be taught.
1 apt at learning.
2 (of a subject) that can be taught.
Derivative
teachability n. teachableness n.
THESAURUS
teachable
apt, bright, clever, docile, educable, facile, formable, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, impressionable, inglorious, innocuous, instructable, intelligent, least, low, lowest, lowliest, lowly, malleable, mean, modest, moldable, motivated, plain, plastic, pliable, poor, quick, ready, receptive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, simple, small, susceptible, thirsty for knowledge, trainable, undistinguished, unimportant, unpretentious, willingROGET THESAURUS
teachable
Learning
N learning, acquisition of knowledge &c, acquisition of skill, acquirement, attainment, edification, scholarship, erudition, acquired knowledge, lore, wide information, self-instruction, study, reading, perusal, inquiry, apprenticeship, prenticeship, pupilage, pupilarity, tutelage, novitiate, matriculation, docility, aptitude, studious, scholastic, scholarly, teachable, docile, apt &c, industrious, at one's books, in statu pupillari, a lumber-house of books in every head, ancora imparo!, hold high converse with the mighty dead, lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
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