Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Easily influenced or affected: "She suddenly was too susceptible to her past” ( Jimmy Breslin).
- adj. Likely to be affected: susceptible to colds.
- adj. Especially sensitive; highly impressionable.
- adj. Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing: a statement susceptible of proof; a disease susceptible to treatment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of receiving or admitting, or of being affected; capable of being, in some way, passively affected; capable (of); accessible (to): commonly with of before a state and to before an agency: as, susceptible of pain; susceptible to flattery: but of is sometimes used also in the latter case.
- Capable of emotional impression; readily impressed; impressible; sensitive.
Wiktionary
- adj. likely to be affected by something
- adj. easily influenced or tricked; credulous
- adj. especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus
- n. A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon.
- adj. Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
- adj. easily impressed emotionally
Etymologies
- Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, past participle of suscipere, to receive : sub-, from below; see sub- + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“He named his farm Quatrocchi, Italian for "four eyes," an appropriate name, he says, for what he calls a susceptible business.”
“Although these plants may look different, they produce the same reaction in susceptible people.”
“Specifically, without further balance sheet repair and reform, financial systems remain susceptible to funding disruptions that could endanger the economic recovery and weaken government budgets.”
“Until then though, 3D TV's may very well be used to draw in susceptible consumers and in some form (as long as we get used to it) will be viewable in video games, cell phones, and on our everyday television.”
“Expression of this gene product in susceptible mammalian cells yields a chimeric peptide containing EYFP localized to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane network, designed specifically for fluorescent labeling of this organelle.”
“I view Islamic terrorists like I do bacteria or viruses – they are opportunistic and wreak their havoc in susceptible arenas.”
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“Mutation in susceptible genes of high penetrance such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 is estimated to account for 3% to % 5 of all breast cancer.”
“No matter how hard researchers try, though, such studies remain susceptible to three of the most common sources of bias in medical research.”
“Weeng is not only the dispenser of sleep, but, it seems, he is also the author of dulness, which renders the word susceptible of an ironical use.”
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mattaustin I found this word in another surfer mag. By John Horne, Living on the islands it was susceptible for young children to surf. Oct 28, 2010