unteachable

Examples

• All

• Performers, or recreative artists as they sometimes label themselves, share with creative artists the gift of an unteachable talent for artistic expression, and like all artists, they are afflicted with ambivalence over displaying that talent in public, relishing acclaim, apprehensive of rejection.

  Academic text (1992)

• Some objected to the proposal for grades 1-6, feeling it was unteachable for the typical teacher.

  Academic text (1994)

• True talent is a gift: ephemeral, elusive, undefinable, unteachable, unlearnable.

  Academic text (1991)

• The experienced teacher realized that the student's lack of interest made him unteachable in that subject.

• Many considered the complex technique unteachable, as it required an instinctive feel for the craft.

Synonyms

U

untrainable

vsunteachable

1 7.0

Impossible or very hard to teach to follow instructions

is impossible to make someone able by instruction rather than merely difficult

U

uneducable

vsunteachable

• Offensive

1 8.8

Not able or willing to learn from teaching

applies to subjects or methods that cannot become learnable through instruction

U

uncoachable

vsunteachable

• Informal

1 7.4

Not willing to accept help or advice to improve

covers a broader inability to be made able, not only refusal of guidance

U

unlearnable

vsunteachable

8.2

Very hard to learn even after much practice

focuses on inability for instruction to make the skill learnable rather than learner struggle

Antonyms

T

teachable

14 3.5

Willing and able to learn from advice and feedback

How Teachable

trainable

2 2.9

teachable

14 3.5

difficult

∞ 1.6

unteachable

1 5.4

intractable

22 8.7

Surface Forms

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Etymology