impressionable

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Youth are so impressionable, all it takes is some discouragement to make them stop believing in their dreams, said Henderson, a physician of internal medicine and pediatrics in Smithsburg.

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  1. adjective Readily or easily influenced; suggestible: impressionable young people.
  2. adjective Capable of receiving an impression; plastic: impressionable plaster.

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  • Vicky was young and impressionable, and there was the added coup of an older man noticing her, especially if her friends were watching. —  A Grave Denied
  • We were very impressionable, as I think all teenagers are, and you change your style, you change your opinions and you change your taste to fit with whatever's kind of popular at that moment. —  Winnipeg Sun
  • Prosecutor Dawn Gallo said Afentakis took advantage of someone who was young and impressionable, and argued he should spend seven years in prison. —  News from www.rep-am.com
  • If you morons would quit being so impressionable, then you would understand that this is EDITED for TV. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • But what ultimately made this outing and so impressionable was the fact that all the stories we were told turned out to be true, much like all the wonderful things we had heard about Tasmania before we got there. —  Intelligent Travel Blog
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  1. = French impressionnable; as impression + -able.
 

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/ɪmˈprɛʃənəbl/
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