untrainable

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adjective

That cannot be trained.

OriginEnglish trainable ← Middle English trayne ← Old French train →
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Meanings

adjectiveuntrainable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat cannot be trained.

    Kristi Noem[…] may have committed a class two misdemeanor offence when her fated dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer Noem deemed “untrainable” for hunting pheasant, killed a neighbor’s chickens.

    2024 April 29, Martin Pengelly, Ramon Antonio Vargas, “Kristi Noem’s story of killing her dog points to class two misdemeanor”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*dʰregʰ-der.?
  9. Latintrahere
  10. Vulgar Latin*tragīnāre
  11. Old Frenchtraïner
  12. Old Frenchtrain
  13. Middle Englishtrayne
  14. Englishtrain
  15. Englishtrainable
  16. Englishuntrainable

From un- + trainable.

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APA

untrainable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untrainable

MLA

“untrainable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untrainable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untrainable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untrainable.

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