susceptible

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sus=cep=ti=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

susceptible, a. [F., from L. suscipere, susceptum, to take up, to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus (see Sub-) + capere to take. See Capable.].

•  Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.  [1913 Webster]

  "It sheds on souls susceptible of light,
  The glorious dawn of our eternal day."  [1913 Webster]
•  Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.  [1913 Webster]

  "Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts."  [1913 Webster]

  "I am constitutionally susceptible of noises."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

susceptible, adj.
1 impressionable, sensitive; easily moved by emotion.
2 (predic.) a (foll. by to) likely to be affected by; liable or vulnerable to (susceptible to pain). b (foll. by of) allowing; admitting of (facts not susceptible of proof).

Derivative

susceptibly adv.

Etymology

LL susceptibilis f. L suscipere suscept- (as SUB-, capere take)

THESAURUS

susceptible

accessible, adaptable, affected, alive to, amenable, answerable for, apt, apt to, aroused, aware, bendable, bending, bright, capable of, clever, cognizant, compliant, conscious, delicate, dependent on, disposed, docile, ductile, educable, elastic, emotionable, exposed, exposed to, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, gullible, impressed, impressible, impressionable, impressive, in danger of, incident to, inclined, influenceable, influenced, instructable, intelligent, liable, liable to, like putty, likely to, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, motivated, movable, naive, naked, naked to, nonimmune, nonresistant, obliged to, obnoxious, open, open to, open-minded, passible, perceptive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prone, prone to, quick, ready, ready for, receptive, responsible for, responsive, ripe for instruction, roused, schoolable, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to, sentient, sequacious, shapable, soft, softhearted, springy, standing to, stirred, suasible, subject, subject to, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptive, susceptive to, swayable, swayed, sympathetic, teachable, tender, tenderhearted, thirsty for knowledge, touched, tractable, tractile, trainable, warmhearted, weak, whippy, willing, willowy, within range of, yielding

ROGET THESAURUS

susceptible

Sensibility

N sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility, impressibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity, mobility, vivacity, vivaciousness, tenderness, softness, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism, excitability, fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches, sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable, susceptive, susceptible, alive to, impassionable, gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, sentimental, romantic, enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned, fastidious, sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core, mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound.

Irascibility

N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.