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impressionable
im‧pres‧sion‧a‧ble/ɪmˈpreʃənəbəl/ adjective [Word Family: noun: impression, impressionism, impressionist, impressiveness; adjective: impressionable, impressive ≠ unimpressive, impressionistic, unimpressed; adverb: impressively, impressionistically; verb: impress] someone who is impressionable is easily influenced, especially because they are young: ▪ The kids are at an impressionable age.
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I've always wanted to do martial arts - maybe I saw too many Jackie Chan movies at an impressionable age. ▪ Unfortunately, the show's message to millions of impressionable teens is that it's OK to take drugs. ▪ What kind of impact will this movie have on impressionable kids? EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A sign of the recession or fear that these impressionable young booksellers might be contaminated by their publishing counterparts in some way? ▪ Iain, like any impressionable adolescent, was always going to find the bad sister more exciting. ▪ Perhaps the Giants felt his approach was not conducive to getting the most out of his staff, especially impressionable young pitchers. ▪ She had taken to growling menacingly at the more impressionable of the remedials to keep herself occupied. ▪ Such was the disturbed world in which the young impressionable Nasser was to take his first steps in politics in the 1930s. ▪ This is doubtful: the electorate, being composed of ordinary people, is less impressionable than Tory grandees. ▪ You-you impressionable teenager with a crush on the football captain and anxiety about your own masculinity-you just might be a born homosexual.
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