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suggestible

suggestible

7 7.0
Easily influenced by what other people say
  • adjective
  • /səˈdʒɛstɪbəl/
translation icon : sugestionable
  • Would you say you're impressionable, suggestible and perhaps a little naive?
  • highly suggestible
  • more suggestible

Examples

  • 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.

  • Can be described as extremely suggestible.

  • But Miss Quinton is easily suggestible.

  • It's about a focusing and narrowing of your attention, which makes you more suggestible to ideas.

  • It makes you suggestible and highly responsive.

  • 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

receptive
vssuggestible
52 4.1

Willing to listen to and accept new ideas

is more easily changed by others' influence than merely open to ideas
persuadable
vssuggestible
3 4.6

Open to change your mind when others give reasons

is influenced more by others' ideas or opinions than by argument
pliable
vssuggestible
3 5.4

Easily accepts other people's ideas

is affected more by others' ideas or opinions than by direct control
persuasible
vssuggestible
7.8

Open to changing your mind when given good reasons

is influenced more by others' ideas or opinions than by argument
suasible
vssuggestible
9.9

Being easily persuaded by other people or by what they say

is affected more by casual opinions and social influence than formal argument
swayable
vssuggestible
7.0

Easily persuaded to change their mind

is shaped more by general ideas or opinions than just persuasive cases

Antonyms

Does not change opinion easily because of what others say

How Suggestible

gullible
65 4.2
suggestible
7 7.0
susceptible
79 5.5

Surface Forms

suggestible positive

Morphology

suggestible = suggest (transparent) = suggest + ible

Standard adjectival formation from the verb 'suggest' with '-ible' indicating 'able to be influenced', so meaning is directly derivable.

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.