TEACHABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teachable mean? 

• TEACHABLE (adjective)
  The adjective TEACHABLE has 1 sense:

1. ready and willing to be taught

  Familiarity information: TEACHABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEACHABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ready and willing to be taught

Synonyms:

docile; teachable

Context example:

teachable youngsters

Similar:

manipulable; tractable (easily managed (controlled or taught or molded))

Derivation:

teach (accustom gradually to some action or attitude)

teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

 Context examples 

He asked, What methods were used to cultivate the minds and bodies of our young nobility, and in what kind of business they commonly spent the first and teachable parts of their lives?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My pupil was a lively child, who had been spoilt and indulged, and therefore was sometimes wayward; but as she was committed entirely to my care, and no injudicious interference from any quarter ever thwarted my plans for her improvement, she soon forgot her little freaks, and became obedient and teachable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)