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- Dictionarysusceptible/səˈsɛptɪbl/
adjective
- 1. likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing: "patients with liver disease may be susceptible to infection" Similar Opposite
- 2. capable or admitting of: "the problem is not susceptible of a simple solution" Similar Opposite
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SUSCEPTIBLE definition: 1. easily influenced or harmed by something: 2. used to describe someone who is easily emotionally…. Learn more.
1. : capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation. a theory susceptible to proof. 2. : open, subject, or unresistant to some stimulus, influence, or agency. susceptible to pneumonia. 3. : impressionable, responsive. a susceptible mind. susceptibleness noun. susceptibly. sə-ˈsep-tə-blē. adverb. Synonyms. endangered. exposed. liable.
Susceptible definition: admitting or capable of some specified treatment. See examples of SUSCEPTIBLE used in a sentence.
If you are susceptible to something such as infections or earaches, it means you are likely to become sick with these things. Have you ever received something you don't want? Well, with susceptible meaning "likely to be influenced or affected by" that is probably going to be the case.
If you are susceptible to something or someone, you are very likely to be influenced by them. Young people are the most susceptible to advertisements. [ + to] James was extremely susceptible to flattery. [ + to] He was, she believes, unusually susceptible to women.
susceptible. adjective. /səˈseptəbl/. /səˈseptəbl/. [not usually before noun] susceptible (to something) very likely to be influenced, harmed or affected by something. He's highly susceptible to flattery. Some of these plants are more susceptible to frost damage than others.
1. Easily influenced or affected: Is he susceptible to persuasion? I'm very susceptible to colds. 2. Especially sensitive; highly impressionable: a susceptible child. 3. Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing something: a statement susceptible of proof; a disease susceptible to treatment.
If you are susceptible to something or someone, you are very likely to be influenced by them. Young people are often seen as being the most susceptible to advertisements. James was extremely susceptible to flattery.
SUSCEPTIBLE definition: 1. easily influenced or harmed by something: 2. the fact of being susceptible to something. Learn more.
1. If you are susceptible to something or someone, you are very likely to be influenced by them. [...] 2. If you are susceptible to a disease or injury, you are very likely to be affected by it. [...] 3. A susceptible person is very easily influenced emotionally. [...] More. Synonyms of 'susceptible'
