Impressionable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Impressionable is an adjective meaning Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
Meaning
Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
More Meanings
- An impressionable person.
Example Sentences
I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.
They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.
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.
"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."
Word Forms
- impressionables
Synonyms for impressionable
Depending on context, synonyms include pliant, susceptible, plastic.
Antonyms for impressionable
Common opposites include unimpressionable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include susceptible, pliant, plastic, impressible, influenceable, suggestible.
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