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Adjective: susceptible  su'sep-tu-bul
  1. (often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of
    "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"
     
  2. Easily impressed emotionally

See also: allergic, amenable, capable, convincible, fictile, hypersensitised [Brit], hypersensitive, hypersensitized, impressible, impressionable, liable, nonimmune, nonresistant, open, out on a limb, persuadable, persuasible, pliable, predisposed, sensitised [Brit], sensitive, sensitized, suasible [rare], subject, suggestible, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, susceptibility, susceptibleness, temptable, tractable, unjabbed [Brit, informal], unprotected, unresistant, unvaccinated, unvaxxed [informal], vulnerable, waxy

Antonym: insusceptible

Encyclopedia: Susceptible