impressionableim‧pres‧sion‧a‧ble /ɪmˈpreʃənəbəl/ adjective - 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?
- 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.
too easily persuaded by other people► be a pushover someone who is a pushover is very easy to persuade, and you can get them to do what you want them to do: · She's a kind and gentle person, but she's no pushover.
► be a soft touch to be someone who can be easily persuaded to give someone what they want, especially because you are too kind and sympathetic: · It's important that the kids don't think the teacher is a soft touch.
► naïve someone who is naïve is so young or inexperienced that they are likely to be easily persuaded to believe something: · I was so naïve - I believed everything the army told me about my husband's death.· She's either stupid or naïve if she thinks he really cares about her.
► gullible easily persuaded or tricked into believing that something is true: · It's easy to blame the public for being gullible enough to buy dieting products, but it's the companies who sell them who should take responsibility.· She was described by her neighbors as a sweet but gullible woman who allowed the man to live in her house as a source of extra money.
► impressionable someone who is impressionable , especially a young person, is easily influenced and can easily be persuaded to do things or to change their opinions: · Unfortunately, the show's message to millions of impressionable teens is that it's OK to take drugs.at an impressionable age (=when you are young and impressionable): · I've always wanted to do martial arts - maybe I saw too many Jackie Chan movies at an impressionable age.
► easily-led British someone who is easily-led does not have a strong character and can easily be persuaded to do things, even things that are wrong: · She's young and rather easily-led.· My son's rather easily-led and tends to get in with the wrong crowd at school.
► impressionable age The kids are at an impressionable age. nounimpressionimpressionismimpressionistimpressivenessadjectiveimpressionableimpressive ≠ unimpressiveimpressionisticunimpressedadverbimpressivelyimpressionisticallyverbimpress