impressionable en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ɪmˈpɹɛ.ʃən.ə.bəl/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
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 *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom 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.
Meanings
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Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
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.
2011, Jamie Carlin Watson, Robert Arp, What's Good on TV?: Understanding Ethics Through Television, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN: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 adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20: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: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.
2003, Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber, Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 240:"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] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more impressionable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most impressionable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
unimpressionable · impressionably · impressionableness
Relateds
Translations (29)
pt impressionável (easily influenced) · fr impressionnable (easily influenced) · bg впечатли́телен (easily influenced) · ka ამთვისებელი (easily influenced) · ru впечатли́тельный (easily influenced) · bg възприемчи́в (easily influenced) · kk әсерленгіш (easily influenced) · fi vaikutusaltis (easily influenced) · nb påvirkelig (easily influenced) · be уражлівы (easily influenced) · gv so-chleayney (easily influenced) · cmn 容易受感染的 (easily influenced) · el ευεπηρέαστος (easily influenced) · mk поводлив (easily influenced) · ka განმცდელი (easily influenced) · ka შთაბეჭდილებიანი (easily influenced) · sv lättpåverkad (easily influenced) · hu befolyásolható (easily influenced) · nl beïnvloedbaar (easily influenced) · it impressionabile (easily influenced) · es impresionable (easily influenced) · ca impressionable (easily influenced) · cmn 易受影響的 /易受影响的 (easily influenced) · nb lettpåvirkelig (easily influenced) · grc παθηματικός (easily influenced) · de beeinflussbar (easily influenced) · nl ontvankelijk (easily influenced) · az təəssüratlı (easily influenced) · ko 쉽게 외부의 영향을 받는 (easily influenced)