impressible

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But the artist is ever excitable, receptive, impressible -- the ready prey of the dealer in illusion and trickery.

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  1. adjective Susceptible to impressions; malleable: impressible young minds.

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  • She is very young, very impressible, and some think very eccentric, very passionate and romantic to frenzy. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • Whether these dreams and visions were the cause or effect of the people's sensitive state, I do not know; but certainly they were very impressible, and even the cold and hardened amongst them were ready to hear about the mysteries of the unseen world. —  From Death into Life
  • But, instead of a marble heart, there lay, under the gray uniform of the soldier, one of warm flesh and blood—tender, impressible, susceptible to the quick touches of all gentle and sweet emotion, and filling, as it were, with quiet happiness, at the sight of children and the sound of their voices. —  A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
  • I was so disgusted and demoralized. the girl (Kloe??) is young and impressible - she has hope for the future and admits to having a problem drinking. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Beautiful weather dilates the heart and renders it more impressible, while bad weather contracts it. —  Hortense Makers of History Series
 

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  1. = French impressible = Portuguese impressivel; as impress + -ible.
 

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/ɪmˈprɛsɪbl/
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