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susceptible
Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing something:
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  1. Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing something:
  2. Especially sensitive; highly impressionable:
  3. Easily affected emotionally; having a sensitive nature or feelings
impressible
That can be impressed; impressionable
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  1. That can be impressed; impressionable
  2. Susceptible to impressions; malleable:
  3. Capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression.
receptive
Capable of or qualified for receiving.
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  1. Capable of or qualified for receiving.
  2. Receiving or ready to receive penetration in sexual intercourse.
  3. Inclined to the favorable reception of a request, suggestion, etc.
sensitive
Easily irritated:
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  1. Easily irritated:
  2. Aware of or careful about the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others:
  3. Easily hurt, upset, or offended:
responsive
Sensitive to, and readily reacting to, stimuli, changes, control mechanisms, etc.
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  1. Sensitive to, and readily reacting to, stimuli, changes, control mechanisms, etc.
  2. Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
  3. Susceptible to the feelings of others.
suggestible
Readily influenced by suggestion:
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  1. Readily influenced by suggestion:
  2. That can be suggested
  3. Readily influenced by suggestion, often, specif., through hypnosis
penetrable
That can be penetrated
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  1. That can be penetrated
  2. Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
  3. Capable of being penetrated:
flexible
Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
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  1. Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
  2. Able to bend the body easily; limber; supple
  3. Capable of being bent or flexed; pliable:
pliable
Easily bent or shaped.
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  1. Easily bent or shaped.
  2. Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
  3. Easily influenced, persuaded, or controlled:
pliant
(Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
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  1. (Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
  2. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
  3. Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable:
tender
Easily hurt; sensitive:
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  1. Easily hurt; sensitive:
  2. Sensitive to impressions, emotions, moral influences, etc.; impressionable
  3. Acutely sensitive, as to pain, insult, etc.
emotional
Of or relating to emotion:
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  1. Of or relating to emotion:
  2. Appealing to or arousing emotion.
  3. Marked by or exhibiting emotion:
sensible
Having appreciation or understanding; emotionally or intellectually aware
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  1. Having appreciation or understanding; emotionally or intellectually aware
  2. That can cause physical sensation; perceptible to the senses
  3. Having senses; capable of receiving sensation; sensitive
sentient
Having sense perception; conscious:
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  1. Having sense perception; conscious:
  2. Of, having, or capable of feeling or perception; conscious
perceptive
Having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition
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  1. Having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition
  2. Able to perceive quickly and easily; having keen insight or intuition; penetrating
  3. Marked by discernment and understanding; sensitive.
sympathetic
Relating to or being vibrations, especially musical tones, produced in one body by energy from a nearby vibrating body and having the same frequency as the vibration of the nearby body.
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  1. Relating to or being vibrations, especially musical tones, produced in one body by energy from a nearby vibrating body and having the same frequency as the vibration of the nearby body.
  2. (Physiol.) Designating or of that part of the autonomic nervous system whose nerves originate in the lumbar and thoracic regions of the spinal cord and that is especially concerned with mediating the involuntary response to alarm, as by speeding the heart rate, raising the blood pressure, and dilating the pupils of the eyes: these nerves oppose the parasympathetic nerves in the regulation of many body processes
  3. In agreement with one's tastes, mood, feelings, disposition, etc.; congenial
amenable
Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority:
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  1. Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority:
  2. Ready to consent; agreeable:
  3. Legally answerable; required to respond; responsible; subject to.
persuadable
Easily persuaded, convinced or manipulated
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  1. Easily persuaded, convinced or manipulated
persuasible
Persuadable
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  1. Persuadable
  2. Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.
empathetic
Empathic.
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  1. Empathic.
  2. Of or characterized by empathy
  3. Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings etc; empathic
ductile
Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin:
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  1. Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin:
  2. Relating to rock or other materials that are capable of withstanding a certain amount of force by changing form before fracturing or breaking.
  3. Easily molded; plastic; pliant
elastic
Quick to recover, as from disappointment; resilient:
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  1. Quick to recover, as from disappointment; resilient:
  2. (Economics) Of, relating to, or being a good for which changes in price have a large effect on the quantity demanded or supplied.
  3. Easily resuming original size or shape after being stretched or otherwise deformed; flexible.
flexible
Able to bend the body easily; limber; supple
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  1. Able to bend the body easily; limber; supple
  2. Readily bending or twisting the body without injury:
  3. Capable of being bent or flexed; pliable:
flexile
Flexible; pliant; mobile
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  1. Flexible; pliant; mobile
  2. Capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking
  3. Flexible.
malleable
That can be hammered, pounded, or pressed into various shapes without breaking
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  1. That can be hammered, pounded, or pressed into various shapes without breaking
  2. Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress . Gold is the most malleable metal.
  3. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure:
plastic
Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling:
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  1. Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling:
  2. Made of a plastic or plastics:
  3. Capable of being shaped or formed:
pliable
Adjusting readily; adaptable
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  1. Adjusting readily; adaptable
  2. Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
  3. Easily bent or molded; flexible
pliant
(Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
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  1. (Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
  2. Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable:
  3. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
suggestible
Susceptible to influence by suggestion.
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  1. Susceptible to influence by suggestion.
  2. That can be suggested
  3. Readily influenced by suggestion, often, specif., through hypnosis
supple
Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
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  1. Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
  2. Easily bent or twisted; flexible; pliant
  3. Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:
impressible
That can be impressed; impressionable
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  1. That can be impressed; impressionable
  2. Susceptible to impressions; malleable:
  3. Capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression.
responsive
Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
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  1. Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
  2. Sensitive to, and readily reacting to, stimuli, changes, control mechanisms, etc.
  3. Susceptible to the feelings of others.
sensible
Having appreciation or understanding; emotionally or intellectually aware
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  1. Having appreciation or understanding; emotionally or intellectually aware
  2. That can cause physical sensation; perceptible to the senses
  3. Having senses; capable of receiving sensation; sensitive
sensitive
Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
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  1. Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
  2. Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
  3. Easily irritated:
sentient
Having sense perception; conscious:
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  1. Having sense perception; conscious:
  2. Of, having, or capable of feeling or perception; conscious
susceptible
Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing something:
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  1. Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing something:
  2. Especially sensitive; highly impressionable:
  3. Easily affected emotionally; having a sensitive nature or feelings
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  • Over the impressionable Alexander I.

  • He was anxiously sensitive about the opinion of others, eager for their sympathy and regard, and, in general, impressionable to their influence.

  • A programme so stupendous awoke in Alexander's impressionable mind an ambition to which he had hitherto been a stranger.

  • Here he fell under the influence of Mark Pattison, to whom his impressionable nature perhaps owed a certain over-fastidiousness that characterized his whole career.

  • Young, emotional, impressionable, well-meaning and egotistic, Alexander displayed from the first an intention of playing a great part on the world's stage, and plunged with all the ardour of youth into the task of realizing his political ideals.

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