Impressionable meaning

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Easily affected by impressions; esp., capable of being influenced intellectually, emotionally, or morally; sensitive.
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The definition of impressionable is easily influenced or overly susceptible to suggestion.

A young child who is influenced by everything his older sibling does and who is influenced by everything his sibling says is an example of someone who would be described as impressionable.

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Readily or easily influenced; suggestible.

Impressionable youths.

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Capable of receiving an impression.

Impressionable plaster.

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Susceptible of impression; capable of receiving impressions; emotional.
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An impressionable person.
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Origin of impressionable

From French impressionnable. See also impressible.

Sentence Examples

  • Over the impressionable Alexander I.

  • He was anxiously sensitive about the opinion of others, eager for their sympathy and regard, and, in general, impressionable to their influence.

  • A programme so stupendous awoke in Alexander's impressionable mind an ambition to which he had hitherto been a stranger.

  • Here he fell under the influence of Mark Pattison, to whom his impressionable nature perhaps owed a certain over-fastidiousness that characterized his whole career.

  • Young, emotional, impressionable, well-meaning and egotistic, Alexander displayed from the first an intention of playing a great part on the world's stage, and plunged with all the ardour of youth into the task of realizing his political ideals.

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