suggestible
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- adjective
- /səˈdʒɛstɪbəl/
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sugestionable
- Would you say you're impressionable, suggestible and perhaps a little naive?
- highly suggestible
- more suggestible
Examples
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Knowing how suggestible Kwan was, and also how eager she was to help me in any way, I made the requirements as clear as possible.
Fiction book (1996) -
Reassurance is most appropriate as a method for dealing with people who are highly suggestible.
Academic text (2000) -
You truly are a suggestible lot.
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Can be described as extremely suggestible.
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But Miss Quinton is easily suggestible.
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It's about a focusing and narrowing of your attention, which makes you more suggestible to ideas.
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It makes you suggestible and highly responsive.
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The prosecutor, Nicola Picardi, said that, according to his psychological profile, Gabriele was "suggestible" and easily influenced by others.
Blog text (7) -
That's because the young and the mentally impaired tend to be more suggestible, more eager to please, more deferential toward people in positions of authority, and less capable of rational decision-making than the average person.
Academic text (1999) -
Many young children are very suggestible and often believe everything they hear.
Synonyms
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4.1
Willing to listen to and accept new ideas
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4.6
Open to change your mind when others give reasons
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5.4
Easily accepts other people's ideas
Open to changing your mind when given good reasons
Being easily persuaded by other people or by what they say
Easily persuaded to change their mind
Antonyms
How Suggestible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Suggestible comes from the familiar verb suggest, which means 'to put an idea into someone's mind', and the ending -ible, which means 'able to be'. So a suggestible person is 'able to be' influenced by suggestions and can be easily affected by other people's ideas.