| 单词 | impressionable |
| 释义 | impressionable (once / 4694 pages) adj Someone who is impressionable is easily influenced. An impressionable person can be greatly changed by his or her experiences — not always in a good way. When someone makes an impression on you, you remember them and are influenced by them. Likewise, someone impressionable is very susceptible to being influenced, almost like a sponge that soaks up ideas. This word almost always applies to kids who are often referred to as “young and impressionable." If you call someone impressionable, it usually implies that they could be easily led astray. WORD FAMILYimpressionable: unimpressionable+/impress: impressed, impresses, impressible, impressing, impression, impressive, impressment/impressed: unimpressed/impressible: impressibly/impression: impressionable, impressionistic, impressions/impressionistic: impressionistically/impressive: impressively, impressiveness, unimpressive/impressment: impressments/unimpressive: unimpressively USAGE EXAMPLESArroyo and Bonnie Kramer, as an impressionable Jack and his beleaguered mother, offer up an endearing portrait of a folkloric child and parent at loggerheads. Washington Post(Dec 11, 2016) “This particular social activist is a very popular young lady and a lot of impressionable young people follow her,” he said of Ms. Zam. New York Times(Dec 05, 2016) In the new series, the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is a more pernicious and modern threat, who manipulates impressionable followers, the media and prominent politicians. New York Times(Nov 02, 2016) adj easily impressed or influenced an impressionable youngster an impressionable age Syn|Ant impressible, waxy easy readily exploited or tricked spinnablecapable or susceptible to being influenced by biased information plastic, pliantcapable of being influenced or formed susceptibleeasily impressed emotionally unimpressionable not sensitive or susceptible to impression |
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