impressionable
Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
Adjective
- Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
- I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman. - 1908, Elizabeth Strong Worthington, How to Cook Husbands, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
- "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." - 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur]...
- Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin imprimō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin impressiōnembor. French impression Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er French impressionner Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -able Middle French -able French -able French impressionnable English impressionable From French impressionnable, equivalent to impression + -able. See also impressible.
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- An impressionable person.
- They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power. - 1942, Frank Gervasi, War Has Seven Faces: