Susceptible

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  • adjective. Easily influenced or affected.
  • adjective. Especially sensitive; highly impressionable.
  • adjective. Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing something.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of receiving or admitting, or of being affected; capable of being, in some way, passively affected; capable (of); accessible (to): commonly with of before a state and to before an agency: as, susceptible of pain; susceptible to flattery: but of is sometimes used also in the latter case.
  • Capable of emotional impression; readily impressed; impressible; sensitive.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon.
  • adjective. Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. likely to be affected by something
  • adjective. easily influenced or tricked; credulous
  • adjective. especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus
  • adjective. that, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result
  • noun. A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
  • adjective. easily impressed emotionally
  • Word Usage
    "He named his farm Quatrocchi, Italian for "four eyes," an appropriate name, he says, for what he calls a susceptible business."