teachable

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈtitʃəbəl/ UK /ˈtiːtʃəbəl/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
able to be taught; willing and able to learn

A mistake on stage became a teachable moment for the cast.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · able to be taught; willing... educabledocile receptive tractableinstructableamenable

Opposites

unteachableintractable incorrigible

Word family

Derived forms teachablenessteachablyteachability

Related forms teach teacher teaching

Etymology

From teach + -able. Teach is from Old English tǣcan ('to show, point out, instruct'), from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną, related to token.

tǣcan Old English *taikijaną Proto-Germanic

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Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# teachable

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈtitʃəbəl/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈtiːtʃəbəl/

## Meanings
1. able to be taught; willing and able to learn

## Examples
- A mistake on stage became a teachable moment for the cast.

## Synonyms
- educable
- docile
- receptive
- tractable
- instructable
- amenable

## Antonyms
- unteachable
- intractable
- incorrigible

## Derived Forms
- teachableness
- teachably
- teachability

## Related Forms
- teach
- teacher
- teaching

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: tǣcan
- Root: *taikijaną

## Etymology
From teach + -able. Teach is from Old English tǣcan ('to show, point out, instruct'), from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną, related to token.

## AI Etymology
Teachable comes from teach + -able. Teach is from Old English tǣcan ('to show, point out, instruct'), from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną, related to token. The historical chain includes Old English tǣcan and Proto-Germanic *taikijaną. The quoted older sense, "to show, point out, instruct," supplies the immediate semantic anchor for teachable. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word teachable carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "able to be taught; willing and able to learn". English derivatives include teachableness, teachably, and teachability; related English forms include teach, teacher, and teaching. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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