Susceptible Synonyms and Antonyms

sə-sĕptə-bəl
Easily imposed on or tricked
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. credulous
  2. dupable
  3. easy
  4. exploitable
  5. gullible
  6. naive
Able to receive and respond to external stimuli
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. responsive
  2. sensitive
  3. impressible
  4. impressionable
  5. receptive
  6. sensible
  7. susceptive
  8. affected
  9. allergic
  10. easy
  11. exposed
  12. gullible
  13. inclined
  14. influenced
  15. liable
  16. naive
  17. open
  18. pliable
  19. sentient
  20. prone
  21. subject
  22. tendentious
  23. tender
  24. vulnerable
  25. weak
Tending to incur
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. liable
  2. open
  3. prone
  4. subject
  5. susceptive
  6. vulnerable
Exposed
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. unsusceptible
  2. resistant
  3. resisting

Words Related to Susceptible

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. wise
  2. awareness
  3. likely
  4. prone-to
  5. predispose
  6. amenable
  7. susceptable
  8. sensitive to
  9. closely-related
  10. suceptible

Susceptible Sentence Examples

  • Children are much more susceptible than adults.

  • The various facts, however, seem to be susceptible of another interpretation.

  • The greater part of the soil is of inferior quality, and much that is susceptible of cultivation is still lying waste.

  • After he recovered from the stabbing, the Doctor said he had scar tissue and would be susceptible to pneumonia in the injured lung.

  • Scotus extends the number of theological doctrines which are not, according to him, susceptible of philosophical proof, including in this class the creation of the world out of nothing, the immortality of the human soul, and even the existence of an almighty divine cause of the universe (though he admits the possibility of proving an ultimate cause superior to all else).

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