Impressionable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impressionable \Im*pres"sion*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F.
     impressionnable.]
     Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded;
     susceptible; impressible; as, a bad influence on
     impressionable youths.
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           He was too impressionable; he had too much of the
           temperament of genius.                   --Motley.
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           A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. --T.
                                                    Hook.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impressionable
       adj : easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable
             youngster"; "an impressionable age" [syn: {impressible}]
             [ant: {unimpressionable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "impressionable":
     accessible, adaptable, alive to, amenable, apt, aware, bendable,
     bending, bright, clever, cognizant, compliant, conscious, delicate,
     docile, ductile, educable, elastic, emotionable, extensible,
     extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile,
     flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressive,
     influenceable, instructable, intelligent, like putty, limber,
     lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, motivated, movable,
     open, open-minded, passible, perceptive, persuadable, persuasible,
     pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, quick, ready, receptive,
     responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, sensible, sensile,
     sensitive, sensitive to, sentient, sequacious, shapable, soft,
     softhearted, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple,
     susceptible, susceptive, swayable, sympathetic, teachable, tender,
     tenderhearted, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile,
     trainable, warmhearted, weak, whippy, willing, willowy, yielding