impressible
impressible adjective: capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression.
Adjective
impressible
- 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
- 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
- Capable of creating an impression.
Origin of impressible
From impress + -ible.
Words formed from impressible
Questions about impressible
- What does impressible mean?
- Impressible means capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression.
- What part of speech is impressible?
- Impressible is an adjective.
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