impressionable

English

Etymology

From French impressionnable. See also impressible.

Adjective

impressionable (comparative more impressionable, superlative most impressionable)

  1. Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
    • 1908, Elizabeth Strong Worthington, How to Cook Husbands, Library of Alexandria (→ISBN)
      I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.
    • 2003, Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber, Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender, Greenwood Publishing Group (→ISBN), page 240:
      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.
    • 2011, Jamie Carlin Watson, Robert Arp, What's Good on TV?: Understanding Ethics Through Television, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN)
      Sages and mothers have long noted that humans, especially young humans, are impressionable. It is supposed that the environment that one inhabits plays a large role in a child's behavioral and moral development.

Translations

Noun

impressionable (plural impressionables)

  1. An impressionable person.
    • 1942, Frank Gervasi, War Has Seven Faces
      They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.

References

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