trainable
Capable of being trained, teachable, educatable.
Adjective
- Capable of being trained, teachable, educatable.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.? Latin trahere Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre Old French traïnerder. Old French trainder. Middle English trayne English train Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English trainable From train + -able.
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Noun
- A mentally retarded person who can be trained or taught.
- Toilet accidents for new children in the school are generally at least two or three times as frequent for trainables as they are for educables. - 1971, Harriet Eleanor Blodgett, Mentally Retarded Children: What Parents...