masterableadj.
/ˈmɑːst(ə)rəb(ə)l/, /ˈmast(ə)rəb(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈmæst(ə)rəb(ə)l/ Capable of being mastered.
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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [adjective] > able or fit to be learned or mastered
learnable?1630
masterable1648
mastered1899
1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia Table sig. Ggg3v/2 The quality of temptations slighted at first, as easily masterable.
1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xlvi. 511 The thieves that are masterable by justice, are fatally accounted with.
1712 Hannibal at Gates 31 The Rigid Tories had some Difficulties in their way, which no sober Man thought masterable.
1882 R. A. Proctor Familiar Sci. Stud. 1 Man might believe..that every kind of knowledge is..masterable.
1982 J. Culler On Deconstruction (1983) ii. 191 The more pervasive the effects of motivation prove to be, the less it can be treated as a mastered or masterable technique.
1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Apr. 17 An age where the more traditional shapers of our identity (the stable job, the life-time skill, the masterable technology) are fast fading.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1648