teachable
adjective
teach·able
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Definition of teachable
1a
: capable of being taught
b
: apt and willing to learn
2
: favorable to teaching
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Other Words from teachable
teachableness
noun
teachably
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adverb
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adverb
Examples of teachable in a Sentence
students who are teachable and eager to learn
The book's style makes it very teachable.
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Michael Belz, who oversees training for San Diego police, congratulated officers and fire personnel on a job well done and then proceeded to dissect the drill in hopes of highlighting teachable moments. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Training for terror: San Diego police stage active-shooter drill at downtown high-rise," 17 Aug. 2019 Every Kim Kardashian cultural appropriation scandal is a teachable moment. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "#KimOhNo: Be Grateful That Kim Kardashian Is Bad at Puns," 27 June 2019 What could have been handled as a simple teachable moment was blown out of proportion. — Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, "Dear Abby: Friendship ends after birthday party joke goes wildly wrong," 11 July 2019 Why not make this a teachable moment and try to instill Darwin’s concept of survival of the fittest? — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, "Singin’ in the Acid Rain," 24 June 2019 How can food writers and culinarians who want to see more chefs like Adjepong on TV and behind the stove continue the momentum and keep using that episode as a teachable moment? — Shauna Stuart | [email protected], al.com, "Chef Todd Richards on empowering chefs to better understand soul food," 21 June 2019 This is a teachable moment for those opposed to Civil War Days. — Charles Selle, chicagotribune.com, "Selle: Great divide remains over course of county’s Civil War Days," 17 June 2019 Mistakes, accidents, teachable moments—this is how children learn in the physical world. — Darren Shou, WIRED, "The Next Big Privacy Hurdle? Teaching AI to Forget," 12 June 2019 This is one of those teachable moments for all the basketball coaches and want to be baseball coaches and parents and kids that are out there. — Andrew Sharp And Ben Golliver, SI.com, "Trying to Process the Shock and Horror of Kevin Durant's Achilles Injury," 11 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'teachable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for teachable
teachable
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of teachable
: able and willing to learn : capable of being taught
: allowing something to be taught or learned easily
See the full definition for teachable in the English Language Learners Dictionary