Susceptible

Word SUSCEPTIBLE
Character 11
Hyphenation sus cep ti ble
Pronunciations /səˈsɛptɪbl̩/

Definitions and meanings of "Susceptible"

What do we mean by susceptible?

Easily influenced or affected. adjective

Especially sensitive; highly impressionable. adjective

Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing something. adjective

Capable of receiving or admitting, or of being affected; capable of being, in some way, passively affected; capable (of); accessible (to): commonly with of before a state and to before an agency: as, susceptible of pain; susceptible to flattery: but of is sometimes used also in the latter case.

Capable of emotional impression; readily impressed; impressible; sensitive.

Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon. adjective

Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive adjective

Likely to be affected by something adjective

Easily influenced or tricked; credulous adjective

Especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus adjective

That, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result adjective

A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease noun

(often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of adjective

Easily impressed emotionally adjective

A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease

Synonyms and Antonyms for Susceptible

The word "susceptible" in example sentences

He named his farm Quatrocchi, Italian for "four eyes," an appropriate name, he says, for what he calls a susceptible business. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Specifically, without further balance sheet repair and reform, financial systems remain susceptible to funding disruptions that could endanger the economic recovery and weaken government budgets. ❋ José Viñals (2010)

Although these plants may look different, they produce the same reaction in susceptible people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Until then though, 3D TV's may very well be used to draw in susceptible consumers and in some form (as long as we get used to it) will be viewable in video games, cell phones, and on our everyday television. ❋ Code Monkey (2008)

I view Islamic terrorists like I do bacteria or viruses – they are opportunistic and wreak their havoc in susceptible arenas. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Expression of this gene product in susceptible mammalian cells yields a chimeric peptide containing EYFP localized to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane network, designed specifically for fluorescent labeling of this organelle. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Mutation in susceptible genes of high penetrance such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 is estimated to account for 3% to % 5 of all breast cancer. ❋ Unknown (2004)

No matter how hard researchers try, though, such studies remain susceptible to three of the most common sources of bias in medical research. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Weeng is not only the dispenser of sleep, but, it seems, he is also the author of dulness, which renders the word susceptible of an ironical use. ❋ Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1828)

'Hadron' is a word susceptible to misprinting of a kind that destroys the seriousness of any discussion.

Hereinafter to be referred to as the Hadron - a word susceptible of truly catastrophic misprinting of a kind that totally destroys the seriousness of any discussion - this interesting monster arranges for protons to smash into each other at blinding speed thereby duplicating the conditions which immediately succeeded the Big Bang. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Crash is recovering from a bout with WIGA and I so far anyway am what the epidemiologists would call a susceptible and what I would call lucky, so we had three sets of tonsils in different states of inflammation to compare. ❋ Michelle (2007)

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