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IMPRESSIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does impressible mean?
• IMPRESSIBLE (adjective)
The adjective IMPRESSIBLE has 1 sense:
1. easily impressed or influenced
Familiarity information: IMPRESSIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easily impressed or influenced
Synonyms:
impressible; impressionable; waxy
Context example:
a waxy mind
Similar:
easy (readily exploited or tricked)
spinnable (capable or susceptible to being influenced by biased information)
plastic; pliant (capable of being influenced or formed)
susceptible (easily impressed emotionally)
Derivation:
impress (have an emotional or cognitive impact upon)
Context examples
Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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