impressionable
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5.4
- adjective
- /ɪmˈprɛʃənəbl/
:
sugestible
- Many impressionable children are swayed by the advertisements they see on television.
- impressionable young
- impressionable mind
- impressionable age
And who did they find but a young, impressionable farm boy from Illinois named Clyde Tombaugh.
- And who did they find but a young, impressionable farm boy from Illinois named Clyde Tombaugh.
- And the people who are hearing this are people who are impressionable.
- Like, and yeah, you're so impressionable is the right word.
- And I, you know, in that moment, I was, you know, impressionable and a lot of things were going on in life.
- And it was a very good time for a very sort of impressionable younger like me to be in New York.
- So how do we navigate, you know, either having kids or, you know, ourselves feeling like we're impressionable?
- You don't think that an impressionable mind might at some stage go, wow, this guy is going to kill democracy and he's the new Hitler, I'd better stop it.
Examples
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That's a pretty impressionable age.
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Well, you're young and impressionable.
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And I thought that was cool, like many young, impressionable young men.
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So at that young age, I was highly impressionable and wanted to follow my best friend.
Blog text (27) -
My daughter is young and impressionable.
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Anyone who has children know how impressionable they are and they are sponges.
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Because children are more impressionable than adults, children absorb foreign cultures as parts of their own emerging culture.
Academic text (2008) -
At no time is this goal more important than during the impressionable and receptive years of children's elementary music instruction.
Academic text (1990) -
To value personal candor more highly than the welfare of an impressionable child smacks of total selfishness.
Blog text (22) -
One of the very effective ways that the dairy industry promotes its products is to reach children because kids are impressionable, they're gonna be consumers for their entire lives, and you might as well get 'em while they're young.
Synonyms
79
5.5
Easily affected or harmed by something
65
4.2
Easily persuaded to believe things that are not true
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6.0
Easily influenced by others and likely to change opinions
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5.4
Easily accepts other people's ideas
Easily influenced by what people say or by new ideas
Open to changing your mind when given good reasons
Easily persuaded to change their mind
Antonyms
How Impressionable
Surface Forms
Morphology
impressionable = impression (transparent) = impress + ion + able
The adjective is formed by adding '-able' to the noun 'impression', yielding 'capable of being affected by impressions', which directly matches the sense 'easily influenced'.
Etymology
Impressionable comes from the parts im- 'into' and press 'push', the same root as the everyday word press. An impression is something 'pressed into' the mind, so an impressionable person is easily shaped or influenced by other people or ideas.