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# teachable

«teachable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Able and willing to learn: a teachable puppy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (teachable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (of a person or animal) Able and willing to learn: a teachable puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/#m1)

2) (of a subject or skill) Able to be taught: Kindness is teachable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/#m2)

3) «A teachable moment»: a chance in real life to learn something useful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and school, a teachable child listens and tries. Teachers talk of «teachable moments» — when something happens (like a spider in class) that becomes a lesson. In science, some animals are more teachable than others.

### examples

- Puppies are very teachable when they are young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/#x1)
- Is creativity teachable? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/#x2)
- The broken window became a teachable moment about safety. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/#x3)
- He is curious and teachable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/#x4)
- Good manners are teachable at any age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/#x5)
- Parrots are surprisingly teachable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/#x6)

### note

Built from teach + -able. Opposite: unteachable. Close words: trainable, willing to learn.

### In the corpora

- ["A teachable moment" (US jargon) means a mistake to learn from.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «teachable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.