Susceptible
[sə'septɪb(ə)l] or [sə'sɛptəbl]
Definition
(adj.) (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; 'susceptible to colds'; 'susceptible of proof' .
(adj.) easily impressed emotionally .
Edited by Bonita--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
(a.) Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Susceptive impressible, sensitive, excitable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Capable, impressible, tender, sensitive
ANT:Incapable, unimpressible, insensitive, insusceptible, impassible
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Definition
adj. capable of receiving anything: impressible: disposed to admit.—ns. Susceptibil′ity Suscep′tibleness quality of being susceptible: capability: sensibility.—adv. Suscep′tibly.—adj. Suscep′tive capable of receiving or admitting: readily admitting.—ns. Suscep′tiveness; Susceptiv′ity; Suscep′tor; Suscip′iency.—adj. Suscip′ient.
Editor: Nolan
Examples
- A solution of nitrate of silver, then called the acid of silver, was known to be peculiarly susceptible to the action of those rays. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Her delicate organization and creative imagination rendered her peculiarly susceptible of pleasurable emotion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She was all the more susceptible about Mr. Casaubon because of her morning's trouble. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am very susceptible to such horrid things. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Poor fellow; he was very susceptible to fatigue; he used to feel those appeals uncommonly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I did not do so to wound or to vex; interrupted I, but you are too touchy and susceptible. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Very fine talking, retorted George Lamb, but, in fact, love is the most arbitrary passion we are susceptible of. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- To the microscope the art of photography has lent its valuable aid, so that all the revelations of the microscope are susceptible of preservation in permanent records, as photomicrographs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Let us repeat the experiment in all the dispositions, of which the mind is susceptible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Country practitioners used to be an irritable species, susceptible on the point of honor; and Mr. Wrench was one of the most irritable among them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You know how dreadfully susceptible I am to boredom. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His attitude is far better than that of the Vice Commission: it too had only a policeman's view of government, but it proceeded to apply it to problems that are not susceptible to such treatment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It has been wrought into a softness that lends its susceptible nature to the influence of magnetism, and has been hardened into steel to form the sword and cutting tool. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When Woodrow Wilson argues that social problems are not susceptible to treatment in a party program, he must mean only one thing: that they cannot be handled by the state as he conceives it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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