Meaning of SUSCEPTIBLE
| Pronunciation: | | su'septubul
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- [adj] (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"
- [adj] easily impressed emotionally
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| | Synonyms: | | allergic, capable, convincible, fictile, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, impressible, impressionable, liable(p), nonimmune, nonresistant, open to(p), persuadable, persuasible, pliable, predisposed, responsive, sensitised, sensitized, suasible, subject to(p), suggestible, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, temptable, unresistant, unvaccinated, vulnerable |
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| | Antonyms: | | insusceptible, unsusceptible | | |
| | See Also: | | sensitive, unprotected | |
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| | Definition: | | \Sus*cep"ti*ble\, a. [F., from L. suscipere,
susceptum, to take up, to support, undertake, recognize,
admit; pref. sus (see {Sub-}) + capere to take. See
{Capable}.]
1. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change,
affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body
susceptible of color or of alteration.
It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious
dawn of our eternal day. --Young.
2. Capable of impression; having nice sensibility;
impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more
susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts.
--Cowper.
I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. --Lamb.
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