SUSCEPTIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does susceptible mean? 

• SUSCEPTIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective SUSCEPTIBLE has 2 senses:

1. (often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of

2. easily impressed emotionally

  Familiarity information: SUSCEPTIBLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUSCEPTIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of

Context example:

susceptible of proof

Similar:

vulnerable (susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation)

allergic; hypersensitised; hypersensitive; hypersensitized; sensitised; sensitized; supersensitised; supersensitive; supersensitized (having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor))

amenable (open to being acted upon in a certain way)

capable; open; subject (possibly accepting or permitting)

convincible; persuadable; persuasible; suasible (being susceptible to persuasion)

fictile; pliable (susceptible to being led or directed)

liable; nonimmune; nonresistant; unresistant ((often followed by 'to') likely to be affected with)

predisposed (made susceptible)

amenable; tractable (responsive to suggestions and influences)

suggestible (susceptible or responsive to suggestion)

temptable (susceptible to temptation)

unvaccinated (not vaccinated)

Also:

unprotected (lacking protection or defense)

vulnerable (susceptible to attack)

sensitive (responsive to physical stimuli)

Attribute:

susceptibility; susceptibleness (the state of being susceptible; easily affected)

Antonym:

unsusceptible (not susceptible to)

Derivation:

susceptibility; susceptibleness (the state of being susceptible; easily affected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Easily impressed emotionally

Similar:

impressible; impressionable; waxy (easily impressed or influenced)

Derivation:

susceptibility; susceptibleness (the state of being susceptible; easily affected)

 Context examples 

Placental cells from boys were also found to be more susceptible to the toxic effects of a drug that blocked spermine production.

(Baby’s sex affects mother’s metabolism and may influence risk of pregnancy-related complications, University of Cambridge)

Infants with SCID appear healthy at birth but are highly susceptible to infections.

(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)

This is indeed what the group found—the patients were less susceptible to the condition and had less inflammation and bone loss compared to age- and gender-matched volunteers.

(Researchers identify immune culprits linked to inflammation and bone loss in gum disease, National Institutes of Health)

Some ocean areas are naturally lower in oxygen than others, but these are even more susceptible to damage when their oxygen levels are depleted further, the report’s authors said.

(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This may inhibit tumor cell proliferation in susceptible tumor cells.

(Chidamide, NCI Thesaurus)

This blocks the activation of B23 and induces apoptosis, thereby inhibiting tumor cell growth in susceptible tumor cells.

(CK2-targeting Synthetic Peptide CIGB-300, NCI Thesaurus)

After being infected with T1L, susceptible mice lost their oral tolerance to a dietary protein.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

Susceptible to the induction of autoimmune thyroiditis.

(A28807, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

N-(2-carboxyphenyl)retinamide may bind to and activate retinoic acid receptors (RARs), thereby inducing changes in the expression of certain genes leading to cell differentiation and decreased cell proliferation in susceptible cells.

(N-(2-Carboxyphenyl)Retinamide, NCI Thesaurus)

The team thus tested whether boosting excitatory currents could activate compensatory currents in susceptible mice.

(Self-tuning neurons promote resilience to stress, depression, NIH)