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impressable

impressable is the alternative form of impressible.

Meaning of impressible

Adjective

impressible

  1. Capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression.
    • Like other men who have little religion, Mr. Paul Dangerfield had a sort of vague superstition. He was impressible by omens, though he scorned his own weakness, and sneered at, and quizzed it sometimes in the monologues of his ugly solitude.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
  2. Capable of being imprinted upon.
    • The differences of impressible and not impressible; figurable and not figurable; mouldable and not mouldable; scissile and not scissile; and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practise; but they are all but the effects of...1651, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum
  3. Capable of creating an impression.

Forms of impressable

comparativemore impressable
superlativemost impressable

Origin of impressable

From impress + -able.

Words formed from impressable

Questions about impressable

What is impressable the alternative form of?
Impressable is the alternative form of impressible.

Words near impressable in the dictionary

  1. impreses
  2. impresh
  3. impreshes
  4. impress
  5. impressability
  6. impressable
  7. impresse
  8. impressed
  9. impressedly
  10. impresser
  11. impressers

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