impressionable
Adjective
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Adjective
impressionable
- Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
- 1908, Elizabeth Strong Worthington, How to Cook Husbands, Library of Alexandria (ISBN 9781465502421)
- I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.
- 2003, Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber, Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender, Greenwood Publishing Group (ISBN 9780313313462), page 240:
- As a result, Miss Brodie calls on her authority over her "impressionable" students in order to urge them into roles she herself is too afraid to occupy.
- 2011, Jamie Carlin Watson, Robert Arp, What's Good on TV?: Understanding Ethics Through Television, John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 9781444343014)
- Sages and mothers have long noted that humans, especially young humans, are impressionable. It is supposed that the environment that one inhabits plays a large role in a child's behavioral and moral development.
- 1908, Elizabeth Strong Worthington, How to Cook Husbands, Library of Alexandria (ISBN 9781465502421)
- French: impressionnable
- Portuguese: impressionável
- Russian: впечатли́тельный
- Spanish: impresionable
impressionable (plural impressionables)
- An impressionable person.
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