educationable

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English

Etymology

From education +‎ -able.

Adjective

educationable (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard) Able or fit to be educated.
    Synonyms: educable, educatable
    • 1860, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theology, and other essays, etc, page 211:
      This offer and this profession, so made to the educationable classes of our Indian subjects, must no doubt be condemned by Christian men, on the ground of reasons which they will regard as absolute and irresistible.
    • 1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia, Problems of Hungry Children in the District of Columbia, 1959, page 36:
      Moreover, there are at present approximately 360 children in social adjustment classes and 3,786 children in the educationable retarded category []
    • 1974, Karl-August Busche, O. Spoerri, John Fraser Shaw, Progress in Paediatric Neurosurgery: Proceedings of the 3rd European Congress of Paediatric Neurosurgery in Göttingen, September 3-7, 1972, page 144:
      About 25 % could be classified as fully knowledgeable, the others who had been operated on were mentally damaged but still educationable.