Crossword clues for trainable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trainable \Train"a*ble\, a.
Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to
virtue.
--Richardson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from train (v.) + -able.
Wiktionary
a. Capable of being trained, teachable, educatable. n. (context euphemistic dated English) A mentally retarded person who can be trained or taught.
Usage examples of "trainable".
Trainable slovenliness had encouraged this threat to one of the most important installations on twelve chronoplanes.
Klein-Schul, Pierce recalled that fertility was another inbred Hutterite quality, and one which would have made them candidates for deportation even if they had not resisted recruitment of their Trainable children.
And every day, a thousand Trainable endos, Climbers, came uptime to help prepare Earth against Doomsday.
Most, however, were Trainables on official business: civil servants, technicians, and scholars.
Pierce learned of the discovery in November, when most Trainables did, and he kept close track of developments.
This was easy, since most Trainables had already lost their loyalties to national authorities and routinely informed one another of important events their governments were trying to keep secret.
Trainability Testing became mandatory for every adolescent on Earth, and teams began to ransack the downtime worlds for Trainables among the endochronics.
Gersen retains a lot of clout among the Colonial bureaucrats, because he can make Trainables do his bidding.
The Copos as a force were in disgrace and had been replaced in the WDS by Site Security, a Trainable corps.
Trainables were great ironists, but nevertheless Pierce wished he were down there with Klasayat.