Impressionable

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Being easily influenced (especially of young people)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
2. An impressionable person.

Example Sentences

I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.

"Panbek is impressionable and full of emotion, with the temperament of the poet and all those little weaknesses, if we may call them so, which the poet pays as a ransom for his gifts."

Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

As a result, Miss Brodie calls on her authority over her "impressionable" students in order to urge them into roles she herself is too afraid to occupy.

Sages and mothers have long noted that humans, especially young humans, are impressionable. It is supposed that the environment that one inhabits plays a large role in a child's behavioral and moral development.

They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.

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• more impressionable
• most impressionable
• impressionables

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