teachable

_teachable_

Adjective.

Pronunciation and accent: tiːtʃəb(ə)l.

Etymology: it is analysed into the verb TEACH + -able. Documented since 1400.

1. Obsolete acceptation: able to teach.

2. (Of a person) capable of being taught; docile.

Antonym: unteachable.

  

My pupil was a […] child, who had been spoilt and indulged, and therefore was sometimes wayward; but […] she soon forgot her little freaks, and became obedient and teachable.

Charlotte Bronte… Jane Eyre

[…] suppose my mind white paper, and […] only say what you would write thereon, or what you would teach me in case I were teachable.

George Berkeley… Works

3. (Of a subject of instruction) capable of being taught; that may be imparted by teaching.

Antonym: unteachable.

They are assured by the success of this book that agriculture is eminently a teachable subject.

Charles Burkett… Agriculture for Beginners

English words derived from TEACHABLE: teachableness, teachability, teachably, unteachable, unteachableness.