susceptible
Likely to be affected by something.
Example
“He was susceptible to minor ailments.”
Other meanings
Easily influenced or tricked; credulous.
Especially sensitive, particularly to a stimulus.
Related words
- suscept
- susceptibly
- atherosusceptible
- hypersusceptible
- immunosusceptible
- insusceptible
- nonsusceptible
- oversusceptible
- pansusceptible
- supersusceptible
- susceptibleness
- trypanosusceptible
Word history
From Latin "susceptus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “susceptible” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.