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Corrigible vs Coachable - What's the difference?

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Corrigible is a related term of coachable.


As adjectives the difference between corrigible and coachable

is that corrigible is able to be corrected or set right while coachable is that can be traversed by a or coachable can be able to be ed effectively.

corrigible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be corrected or set right.
  • (obsolete) Submissive to correction; docile.
    • Bending down his corrigible neck. — Shakespeare.
  • (obsolete) Deserving chastisement; punishable.
    • He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. — Howell.
  • (obsolete) Having power to correct; corrective.
    • The corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. — Shakespeare.
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * (able to be corrected) correctable

    Antonyms

    * incorrigible

    Related terms

    * corrigibility

    See also

    * correctable

    coachable

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That can be traversed by a .

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be ed effectively
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    Related terms
    * teachable * corrigible
    Derived terms
    * uncoachable