impressionable.

Easily influenced by others' views, examples, or emotional effects.

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Words that belong together

• an impressionable audience
• an impressionable child

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He worried about the impressionable audience hearing only the confident half of the story.

She had been impressionable, not incapable of judgment, and remembered the difference.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Comparative more impressionable; superlative most impressionable where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.