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单词 suggestible
释义

suggestible

adjective

sug·​gest·​ible səg-ˈje-stə-bəl How to pronounce suggestible (audio)
sə-ˈje-
: easily influenced by suggestion
suggestibility
səg-ˌje-stə-ˈbi-lə-tē How to pronounce suggestible (audio)
sə-ˌje-
noun

Example Sentences

The patient was highly suggestible.
Recent Examples on the Web For kids who had yet to learn about unconscious minds and suggestible bodies, the device really seemed to move the fingers, rather than the other way around. Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2022 But the communications with the dead went by without raising a single goose bump on this suggestible viewer’s skin. Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021 Hence its migration from college campuses to K-12 schools, where its practitioners expect to find supple and more-suggestible minds. Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 June 2021 Patients, many of them vulnerable and afraid, are suggestible in the extreme—and the COVID-19 pandemic has only underscored that truth. Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2020 Silverstone applies a harried sense of confused anxiety to Susan, while Corddry plays Bob as an unmotivated and easily suggestible pushover. Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020 People who are overly suggestible, isolated and angry, based on their social and environmental circumstances may get attracted to dangerous ideologies, or join a criminal group or cult. Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2019 Others may be suggestible to hearing or sensing sounds within the realm of the imagination. Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2018 And while some psychologists assert people with DID are simply highly suggestible, there are neural imaging studies indicating otherwise. Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1890, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

suggestible

adjective

sug·​gest·​ible sə(g)-ˈjes-tə-bəl How to pronounce suggestible (audio)
: easily influenced by suggestion
a suggestible hypnotic subject

suggestible

adjective

as in gullible

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • gullible
  • vulnerable
  • susceptible
  • naive
  • unwary
  • gullable
  • exploitable
  • ingenuous
  • guileless
  • sincere
  • unaffected
  • naïve
  • impressionable
  • artless
  • innocent
  • unpretentious
  • malleable
  • trustful
  • unpretending
  • real
  • persuadable
  • inexperienced
  • genuine
  • honest
  • simple
  • unsophisticated
  • trusting
  • childlike
  • simpleminded
  • true
  • natural
  • unworldly
  • wide-eyed
  • dewy-eyed
  • persuasible
  • gee-whiz

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • skeptical
  • suspicious
  • cynical
  • wary
  • insensitive
  • critical
  • mistrustful
  • sophisticated
  • worldly
  • unimpressionable
  • shrewd
  • subtle
  • civilized
  • cosmopolitan
  • cunning
  • wily
  • cultured
  • seasoned
  • polished
  • insusceptible
  • refined
  • assuming
  • pretentious
  • shifty
  • sly
  • cultivated
  • slippery
  • tricky
  • scheming
  • false
  • crafty
  • dishonest
  • affected
  • insincere
  • guileful
  • artificial
  • sharp
  • foxy
  • calculating
  • worldly-wise
  • slick
  • artful
  • underhanded
  • knavish
  • designing
  • fake
  • phony
  • canny
  • phoney
  • arch
  • dissimulating
  • dissembling
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