susceptible

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  1. adjective Easily influenced or affected: "She suddenly was too susceptible to her past” (Jimmy Breslin).
  2. adjective Likely to be affected: susceptible to colds.
  3. adjective Especially sensitive; highly impressionable.
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  • The sales of land or granting user rights are susceptible, as are financial services and heavily regulated industries.
  • Sachdeva said those most susceptible are the elderly and people in hospitals, nursing homes, prisons and gyms. —  journal-news.com - News
  • Inc. The reasons are found in significant differences in immune signaling in a specific type of dendritic cells in AIDS-susceptible or resistant host species. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Hereinafter to be referred to as the Hadron - a word susceptible of truly catastrophic misprinting of a kind that totally destroys the seriousness of any discussion - this interesting monster arranges for protons to smash into each other at blinding speed thereby duplicating the conditions which immediately succeeded the Big Bang. —  On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
  • Thankfully I'm not susceptible, and I stand by my claims that Miao Diary is nothing more than a more modern Megatokyo (read: horse excrement). —  notdotq
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capable ·  sensitive ·  vulnerable ·  unstable ·  receptive ·  responsive ·  liable ·  apt ·  excitable ·  irritable ·  prone ·  sympathetic
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  1. 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.

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  1. from French susceptible = Spanish susceptible = Portuguese susceptivel = Italian suscettibile, from Middle Latin *susceptibilis, capable, susceptible, from Latin suscipere, past participle susceptus, take up, take upon one, undertake, receive: see suscipient.
 

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