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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
part of speech: |
adjective |
definition 1: |
easily influenced or impressed (usu. fol. by "to").
Teenagers are thought to be highly susceptible to psychological pressure.- synonyms:
- impressionable, pliable, suggestible
- antonyms:
- immune, impervious, insusceptible, streetwise, superior, unsusceptible
- similar words:
- accessible, amenable, credulous, easy, gullible, malleable, manageable, open
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definition 2: |
especially likely to be afflicted or suffer (usu. fol. by "to").
People with weakened immune systems are particularly susceptible to this flu.- synonyms:
- liable, prone, sensitive, subject
- antonyms:
- immune, insusceptible, resistant, unsusceptible
- similar words:
- accessible, inclined, open, predisposed, pregnable, vulnerable
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definition 3: |
readily accepting or permitting a particular action or treatment (usu. fol. by "to" or "of").
His action was susceptible of many different interpretations.- synonyms:
- accessible, open
- antonyms:
- unsusceptible
- similar words:
- accepting, capable, receptive
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definition 4: |
emotionally sensitive or impressionable.
a young, susceptible child- synonyms:
- impressionable, sensitive
- antonyms:
- unsusceptible
- similar words:
- feeling, insecure, unstable, vulnerable, weak
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related words: |
frail, gullible, insecure, irritable, naked, prone, vulnerable |
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derivations: |
susceptibly (adv.), susceptibleness (n.) |
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