impressionable
adjective/ɪmˈpreʃənəbl/
/ɪmˈpreʃənəbl/
- (of a person, especially a young one) easily influenced or affected by somebody/something
- children at an impressionable age
- He is in a highly impressionable state.
- She was a bad influence on the child, who was at an impressionable age.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French, from impressionner, from Latin impressio(n-), from the verb imprimere ‘press into’, from in- ‘into’ + premere ‘to press’.
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