Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Readily influenced by suggestion: suggestible young minds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being suggested.
- Having great suggestibility; credencive and submissive.
Wiktionary
- adj. Susceptible to influence by suggestion.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. susceptible or responsive to suggestion
Examples
“Those of us familiar with Amnesty International's nefarious anti-Israel agenda and notoriously "suggestible" investigative methodology wondered how it could possibly match such a breathtaking lie.”
“A child who is "suggestible" to a high degree shows it in what we call "motility.”
“Derren says that he picked someone highly suggestible, like a film student.”
“My patients who have responded are not people who are suggestible.”
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“I try not to laugh, but these are very suggestible people. fuyuko”
“SpongeBob and Patrick themselves are feverishly suggestible — no gimmick or promotion targeted at them can possibly miss.”
“Meanwhile, let's all hope Alan Byrne is not the suggestible sort.”
“Sure, it's a loving and skilfully crafted homage to a man who was the film-maker's own sporting hero, and as suggestible as my teenage self.”
The Guardian: Why two new sports documentaries have messed with my mind | Emma John
“Or because the board and management of the bank were so resistant to Mr. Wolfowitz's aggressive anti-corruption agenda, and all too happy to leak selective and bogus information to suggestible journalists?”
“If you, the consumer, are suggestible enough to buy a particular brand of aftershave just because a footballer sploshed it round his cheeks on a billboard, you should take a long hard look at your own malleability.”
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
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