<p>Is ‘relatable’ a legitimate word? My English teacher ‘criticized’ the majority of us today for using this word in the essays but I checked Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Eleventh Edition and ‘relatable’ is a word!</p>
<p>Your teacher is a doofus. lol</p>
<p>Yes, it’s a word, but it is very uncommon and disliked. Amateurs use it. Just because it’s a word doesn’t mean you should use it. Don’t use it. If you google it, there are 500,000 uses while the word meaningful has 40,000,000 uses.</p>