Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily influenced or affected.
- adjective Especially sensitive; highly impressionable.
- adjective Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of receiving or admitting, or of being affected; capable of being, in some way, passively affected; capable (of); accessible (to): commonly with of before a state and to before an agency: as, susceptible of pain; susceptible to flattery: but of is sometimes used also in the latter case.
- Capable of emotional impression; readily impressed; impressible; sensitive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon.
- adjective Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
likely to beaffected by something - adjective
easily influenced ortricked ;credulous - adjective medicine
especially sensitive , especially to astimulus - adjective that, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result
- noun epidemiology A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
- adjective easily impressed emotionally
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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He named his farm Quatrocchi, Italian for "four eyes," an appropriate name, he says, for what he calls a susceptible business.
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Although these plants may look different, they produce the same reaction in susceptible people.
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Specifically, without further balance sheet repair and reform, financial systems remain susceptible to funding disruptions that could endanger the economic recovery and weaken government budgets.
José Viñals: Financial System Fragilities - Achilles' Heel of Economic Recovery José Viñals 2010
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Specifically, without further balance sheet repair and reform, financial systems remain susceptible to funding disruptions that could endanger the economic recovery and weaken government budgets.
José Viñals: Financial System Fragilities - Achilles' Heel of Economic Recovery José Viñals 2010
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Until then though, 3D TV's may very well be used to draw in susceptible consumers and in some form (as long as we get used to it) will be viewable in video games, cell phones, and on our everyday television.
Thoughts: 3d TV without the Glasses Code Monkey 2008
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I view Islamic terrorists like I do bacteria or viruses – they are opportunistic and wreak their havoc in susceptible arenas.
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers 2005
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Expression of this gene product in susceptible mammalian cells yields a chimeric peptide containing EYFP localized to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane network, designed specifically for fluorescent labeling of this organelle.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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I view Islamic terrorists like I do bacteria or viruses – they are opportunistic and wreak their havoc in susceptible arenas.
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers 2005
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Mutation in susceptible genes of high penetrance such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 is estimated to account for 3% to % 5 of all breast cancer.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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No matter how hard researchers try, though, such studies remain susceptible to three of the most common sources of bias in medical research.
mattaustin commented on the word susceptible
I found this word in another surfer mag. By John Horne, Living on the islands it was susceptible for young children to surf.
October 28, 2010