different between teachable vs teachless

English

Etymology

From Middle English techeable, techeabyll, techeabylle, equivalent to teach +? -able.

Adjective

teachable (comparative more teachable, superlative most teachable)

1. Capable of being taught; apt to learn.
2. Willing to receive instruction or to learn; docile.
3. That can be taught.

4. Facilitating teaching; instructive.
   • 2011, Marjorie Kostelnik, Kara Gregory, Anne Soderman, Guiding Children's Social Development and Learning (page 10)

     Such natural opportunities for social learning become teachable moments, in which children are motivated to learn new strategies.

Synonyms

• docile

Translations

References

• teachable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• teachable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• cheatable

English

Etymology

teach +? -less

Adjective

teachless (comparative more teachless, superlative most teachless)

1. (archaic) Not teachable.
   • 1818-1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo

     […] if man be
     The passive thing you say, I should not see
     Much harm in the religions and old saws
     (Tho' I may never own such leaden laws)
     Which break a teachless nature to the yoke.

Anagrams

• cheatless