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susceptible

[ suh-sep-tuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. admitting or capable of some specified treatment:

    susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.

  2. accessible or especially liable or subject to some influence, mood, agency, etc.:

    susceptible to colds; susceptible to flattery.

  3. capable of being affected emotionally; impressionable.


susceptible

/ səˈsɛptəbəl /

adjective

  1. postpositive; foll by of or to yielding readily (to); capable (of)

    hypotheses susceptible of refutation

    susceptible to control

  2. postpositivefoll byto liable to be afflicted (by)

    susceptible to colds

  3. easily impressed emotionally
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • susˈceptibleness, noun
  • susˈceptibly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • sus·cepti·ble·ness noun
  • sus·cepti·bly adverb
  • nonsus·cepti·ble adjective
  • nonsus·cepti·ble·ness noun
  • nonsus·cepti·bly adverb
  • over·sus·cepti·ble adjective
  • over·sus·cepti·ble·ness noun
  • over·sus·cepti·bly adverb
  • presus·cepti·ble adjective
  • unsus·cepti·ble adjective
  • unsus·cepti·ble·ness noun
  • unsus·cepti·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of susceptible1

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Late Latin susceptibilis, from suscept(us) “taken up” (past participle of suscipere “to take up, support,” from sus- sus- + -cipere, combining form of capere “to take”) + -ibilis -ible
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Word History and Origins

Origin of susceptible1

C17: from Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin suscipere to take up, from sub- + capere to take
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Example Sentences

As our immune response to them wanes, we once again become susceptible to them.

Also notable, they recommend requiring that a home seller, for instance, disclose whether the property was susceptible to coastal flooding during a real estate transaction.

One effect is that the pool of susceptible individuals has been depleted in many areas.

In these children, who showed no outward symptoms of compromised immunity, he has found defects in genes that make them susceptible to severe infection with a single pathogen.

At first the virus infects people who are more susceptible and spreads quickly.

Once people with ID are arrested, they are particularly susceptible to making coerced and often false confessions.

These studies only speak to one of our ingrained mental habits that make us particularly susceptible to religious belief.

Of these, 2.5 million are under the age of five and most susceptible to childhood diseases.

Once RB was turned off, female cells were equally susceptible to becoming cancerous.

Catholics, Jews, Italians, and Greeks were thought to be particularly susceptible.

Nearly every acre I have seen is susceptible of cultivation, and of course either cultivated, built upon, or devoted to wood.

They are more susceptible to the horrors and discomforts of what they were never brought up to undergo.

It is of an exceedingly hard, densely compact nature; from its hardness difficult to work, but susceptible of a very high polish.

And another has on show fine papers as susceptible of receiving good impressions from type as any in use in modern books.

The soft material lying between these is very susceptible to damp, especially when fresh cut.

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