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Definition of Impressionable
1. Adjective. Easily impressed or influenced. "A waxy mind"
Similar to: Easy, Spinnable, Plastic, Pliant, Susceptible
Derivative terms: Impress
Antonyms: Unimpressionable
Definition of Impressionable
1. a. Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible.
Definition of Impressionable
1. Adjective. Susceptible of impression; capable of receiving impressions; emotional. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impressionable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impressionable
Literary usage of Impressionable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course of Lectures on the Growth and Means of Training the Mental Faculty by Francis Warner (1890)
"Specimens illustrating living things as being impressionable, and as the seats of
... In the absence of moisture it is not impressionable to the effects of ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"beautiful, and impressionable, she is married to a man much older than herself.
While visiting in Moscow, in the household of her brother Prince Stepan Ob- ..."
3. The Aesthetic Nature of Tennyson by Jean Pauline Smith (1920)
"In the following passage" in contrast to the above—we find the expression of
delight of the impressionable boy in sounds of dawn—the morning song of the ..."
4. The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere by Mabel Annie Stobart (1916)
"I told them all to bring tins, or paper, for some extra rations of tea and coffee,
for the trek, and the naughty mood of these impressionable, child-like, ..."
5. The Puritan in Holland, England, and America: An Introduction to American by Douglas Campbell (1892)
"These Elizabethan Englishmen, with their poetical and chival- ric instincts, were
as impressionable as children, and as easily affected by anything which ..."
6. Nelson's Friendships by Hilda Gamlin (1899)
"England, Home, and Beauty—Miss Knight—A retrospective glance which shows how, in
1785, the impressionable Captain Nelson of the Boreas had a Platonic ..."
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