impressible

[im-pres-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being impressed; impressionable.

Other Word Forms

• impressibility noun
• impressibleness noun
• impressibly adverb
• overimpressibility noun
• overimpressible adjective
• overimpressibly adverb
• unimpressibility noun
• unimpressible adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of impressible¹

First recorded in 1620–30; impress ¹ + -ible

Example Sentences

Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature.

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Some players use it to pay utility bills or help out family members, and there are coaches and administrators who feel it helps ward off the temptation to accept impressible benefits.

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However, the boy’s demeanor when he is effectively kidnapped by Nils strikes as both impressibly mature and exactly right given his home circumstances and his lack of illusions about his father.

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The laws creating the commissions constitute “an impressible commingling of the legislative power and executive power and an impressible encroachment by the legislative branch of government on the executive branch of government,” the judges said.

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Then will the Oriental mind be brought into an impressible state, in which argument and persuasion can act upon it; and it may yield to the combined influence of civilization and Christianity.

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