teachable
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teach·a·ble
(tē′chə-bəl)adj.
1. Capable of being taught: teachable skills.
2. Able and willing to learn: teachable youngsters.
teach′a·bil′i·ty, teach′a·ble·ness n.
teach′a·bly adv.
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teach•a•ble
(ˈti tʃə bəl)adj.
1. capable of being instructed, as a person.
2. capable of being taught, as a subject.
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Adj. | 1. | teachable - ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler |
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teachable
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teachable
adj animal, child → lernfähig; music is a very teachable subject → Musik ist ein Fach, das sich gut unterrichten or lehren (geh) → lässt; this is not a teachable skill → diese Fertigkeit kann man niemandem beibringen; things in life which are not teachable → Dinge, die man niemandem beibringen kann
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