impressionable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: im=pres=sion=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

impressionable, a. [Cf. F. impressionnable.].

 Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible; as, a bad influence on impressionable youths.  [1913 Webster]
"He was too impressionable; he had too much of the temperament of genius."  [1913 Webster]
"A pretty face and an impressionable disposition."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

impressionable, adj. easily influenced; susceptible to impressions.

Derivative

impressionability n. impressionably adv.

Etymology

F impressionnable f. impressionner (as IMPRESSION)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

impressionable

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.