untrainable en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English train Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English trainable English untrainable From un- + trainable.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) That 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: