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Webster 1913 Edition


Trainable

Train′a-ble

,
Adj.
Capable of being trained or educated;
as, boys
trainable
to virtue
.
Richardson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Trainable

TRA'INABLE

,
Adj.
That may be trained. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


trainable

trainable

English

Adjective

trainable (comparative more trainable, superlative most trainable)

  1. Capable of being trained, teachable, educatable.

Noun

trainable (plural trainables)

  1. (euphemistic, dated) A mentally retarded person who can be trained or taught.
    • 1971, Harriet Eleanor Blodgett, Mentally Retarded Children: What Parents and Others Should Know:
      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.

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