impressionable

impressionable

English

Etymology

From French impressionnable. See also impressible.

Adjective

impressionable (comparative more impressionable, superlative most impressionable)

1. Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
   • 1908, Elizabeth Strong Worthington, How to Cook Husbands, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:

     I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "Panbek is impressionable and full of emotion, with the temperament of the poet and all those little weaknesses, if we may call them so, which the poet pays as a ransom for his gifts."

   • 2003, Jerilyn Fisher; Ellen S. Silber, Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, 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:

     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.

Translations

easily influenced

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: təəssüratlı Belarusian: уражлівы (uražlivy) Catalan: impressionable Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: beïnvloedbaar (nl), ontvankelijk (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: vaikutusaltis French: impressionnable (fr) Georgian: განმცდელი (ganmcdeli), შთაბეჭდილებიანი (štabeč̣dilebiani), ამთვისებელი (amtvisebeli) German: beeinflussbar (de) Greek: ευεπηρέαστος (el) (evepiréastos) Ancient: παθηματικός (pathēmatikós) Hungarian: befolyásolható (hu) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: 쉽게 외부의 영향을 받는 (swipge oebuui yeonghyang'eul banneun) Macedonian: поводлив (povodliv) Manx: so-chleayney Norwegian: Bokmål: påvirkelig, lettpåvirkelig Portuguese: impressionável Russian: впечатли́тельный (ru) (vpečatlítelʹnyj) Spanish: impresionable (es)

Noun

impressionable (plural impressionables)

1. An impressionable person.
   • 1942, Frank Gervasi, War Has Seven Faces:

     They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.

References

• impressionable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911