Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: impressionable
IPA transcription: [,ɪmpɹ'ɛʃənəbəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: impressionable, waxy, impressible
    Meaning: easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age"; "a waxy mind"
Usage examples
  • Given an impressionable jury, there's just a chance that we might pull it off.
  • Andrey Yefimitch knew that such surroundings were torture to feverish, consumptive, and impressionable patients; but what could be done?
  • But there was a light in Captain Puffin's house: he had a less impressionable nature than the Major and was in so many ways far inferior.
  • She was an excitable, impressionable sort of girl, and when once I had obtained an entrance into her mind I found it the easiest thing in the world to dominate her thoughts.