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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impressionable \Im*pres"sion*a*ble\, adjective [Cf. F. impressionnable.] Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible; as, a bad influence on impressionable youths.
He was too impressionable; he had too much of the temperament of genius. --Motley.
A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. --T. Hook.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
impressionable
adjective: easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age" [syn: {impressible}] [ant: {unimpressionable}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "impressionable": accessible, adaptable, alive to, amenable, apt, aware, bendable, bending, bright, clever, cognizant, compliant, conscious, delicate, docile, ductile, educable, elastic, emotionable, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressive, influenceable, instructable, intelligent, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, motivated, movable, open, open-minded, passible, perceptive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, quick, ready, receptive, responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to, sentient, sequacious, shapable, soft, softhearted, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, susceptive, swayable, sympathetic, teachable, tender, tenderhearted, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, warmhearted, weak, whippy, willing, willowy, yielding
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