teachable

adjective

Definition of teachablenext
as in trainable

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Recent Examples of teachable That is why this moment should be treated as a teachable one. — Karl W. Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026 Be teachable and engage in open-minded conversations. — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026 You are invited to stay teachable, lead with intellect and discernment, and use your innate spiritual technology that lives within you to reinvent ways of living that are efficient and needed. — Tatianna Tarot, Refinery29, 2 Dec. 2025 These measurable, teachable competencies are often discipline-specific but share common elements across all engineering fields. — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for teachable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teachable
  1. trainable
  2. tractable
  3. controllable
  4. manageable
  5. obedient
  6. docile
  7. submissive
  8. amenable
Adjective
  • Nervous system training has moved from clinical biofeedback labs to everyday wrist wearables, with brands like Oura, WHOOP and Apollo Neuro reframing stress as a trainable fitness metric.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • The infrastructure layer that makes those models trainable, specifically, the physical world data supply chain, remains underfunded relative to the problem size.
    — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Definition of trainable
Adjective
  • External control arms, comparative effectiveness studies against real-world standard of care, post-market expansions of indication and broader safety analyses all become more tractable.
    — David Talby, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • After decades of mathematicians spinning their wheels, the problem suddenly seemed tractable.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
Definition of tractable
Adjective
  • The Seoul design treats the bright and dark modes as part of a unified controllable system, and introduces two tunable loop couplers into the resonator architecture.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Customer service commitments for controllable delays and cancellations vary by airline and can be found on their websites and the DOT’s consumer dashboard.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of controllable
Adjective
  • Rather than immediately exposing maneuver forces to direct contact, Russian commanders typically first attempt to inflict sufficient losses on Ukrainian defenders to make the subsequent assault more manageable.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Our view is that those requirements are manageable for Meta because younger users represent only a small portion of Facebook and Instagram's audiences.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of manageable
Adjective
  • Reflecting on her obedient past as a child actor, Panettiere told THR that that pressure ultimately took a toll on her.
    — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The native, late summer-blooming obedient plant is a showy addition to your garden.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of obedient
Adjective
  • Their quaint view of women as meek, docile and powerless clearly worked in her favor.
    — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Corliss said the shark that bit Daniel was a nurse shark, a docile species that experts say is rarely implicated in shark bites.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of docile
Adjective
  • The implication is that stage types and progressive politicians are craven, submissive, and insincere.
    — Erik Forrest Jackson, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Today, other drugs are more often deployed, chiefly benzodiazepines or the benzodiazepine Clonazepam, which also render a person zombie-like and more reliably submissive.
    — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of submissive
Adjective
  • The price to keep him will be accordingly high, as contracts continue to skyrocket around the league, but the bet here is that DeBrincat will be amenable to an extension in Detroit.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Businesses must analyze operations, reallocate AI-amenable tasks to agents, and re-skill employees for strategic, client-facing roles.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of amenable

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“Teachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachable. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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