impressionable
/ɪmˈpɹɛ.ʃən.ə.bəl/
impressionable adjective: being easily influenced (especially of young people).
Adjective
impressionable (comparative more impressionable, superlative most impressionable)
- Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
- I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.1908, Elizabeth Strong Worthington, How to Cook Husbands, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN
- "Panbek is impressionable and full of emotion, with the temperament of the poet and all those little weaknesses, if we may call them so, which the poet pays as a ransom for his gifts."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
Noun
impressionable (plural impressionables)
- An impressionable person.
- They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.1942, Frank Gervasi, War Has Seven Faces
impressionable meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
impressionable in Tamil
- தாக்கத்திற்குள்ளாகும், எளிதில் வயப்படுத்தத்தக்க, பாதிக்கப்படக்கூடிய, எளிதில் ஆட்படுத்தப்படக்கூடிய
impressionable in Bengali
- সহজেই প্রভাবিত হয় এমন, সংবেদনশীল
impressionable in Malayalam
- പതിയത്തക്ക, വികാരാനുകൂല, സുരഞ്ജനീയ, ധാരണയുള്ള
impressionable in Kannada
- ಕುಯ್ಗಯ್ಯಬಲ್ಲ, ಒಲಿಸಬಲ್ಲ, ಪ್ರಭಾವಿತನಾಗಬಲ್ಲ, ಸುಲಭ ಪ್ರೇರಣೆಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕುವ
Examples of impressionable in a sentence
- As a result, Miss Brodie calls on her authority over her "impressionable" students in order to urge them into roles she herself is too afraid to occupy.2003, Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber, Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 240:
- Sages and mothers have long noted that humans, especially young humans, are impressionable.2011, Jamie Carlin Watson, Robert Arp, What's Good on TV?: Understanding Ethics Through Television, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
Forms of impressionable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more impressionable |
| superlative | most impressionable |
| Noun | |
| plural | impressionables |
Origin of impressionable
From French impressionnable, equivalent to impression + -able. See also impressible.
Words formed from impressionable
Questions about impressionable
- What does impressionable mean?
- Impressionable means being easily influenced (especially of young people).
- What is impressionable in Tamil?
- Impressionable in Tamil is தாக்கத்திற்குள்ளாகும், எளிதில் வயப்படுத்தத்தக்க, பாதிக்கப்படக்கூடிய. See Impressionable meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use impressionable in a sentence?
- As a result, Miss Brodie calls on her authority over her "impressionable" students in order to urge them into roles she herself is too afraid to occupy.
- What part of speech is impressionable?
- Impressionable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce impressionable?
- Impressionable is pronounced /ɪmˈpɹɛ.ʃən.ə.bəl/.
Words near impressionable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: impressionable (page history and authors); impressionable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Impressionable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impressionable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impressionable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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