TEACHABLE Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

teachable

adjective

Definition of teachable

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

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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

Where Raphael’s infant Christ is plump, acquiescent, docile, Cassatt’s children squirm, resist, and ignore authority.

— Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
Even with docile scoring conditions that Saturday, Royal Birkdale yielded plenty of statistical superlatives for the championship.

— Justin Ray, New York Times, 18 July 2026

Definition of docile

Adjective

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
The submissive Colin finds new confidence and enjoys doing assorted things for Ray, but complications arise when Colin begins to want something more emotional.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 June 2026

Definition of submissive

Adjective

Dealing with businesses along the track is often the most contentious part of the planning, but the only businesses along the course — a steakhouse and a doughnut shop — were amenable.

— Adam Kilgore, New York Times, 20 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

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