• Trainable

    Origin

    train + -able

    Full definition of trainable

    Adjective

    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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