Meaning & use
Educable
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Capable of being taught or trained, especially in a formal educational setting.
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The therapist assessed whether the child was educable within a mainstream classroom.
Early psychologists debated which populations they considered educable, a distinction now seen as outdated.
A note on using this word
The word carries historical baggage from outdated psychiatric classifications and is now mostly used in neutral educational or clinical contexts.
Words with a similar meaning
teachabletrainable
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Words with an opposite meaning
uneducable
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