English > susceptible: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | (often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of. |
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| Examples | - "susceptible to colds"
- "susceptible of proof"
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| Attribute of | susceptibility, susceptibleness | The state of being susceptible |
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| Narrower | allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized, sensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, supersensitised | Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) |
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| amenable, tractable | readily reacting to suggestions and influences |
| amenable | Open to being acted upon in a certain way |
| capable, open, subject | Possibly accepting or permitting |
| convincible, persuadable, persuasible, suasible | susceptible to persuasion |
| fictile, pliable | susceptible to being led or directed |
| liable, nonimmune, nonresistant, unresistant | (often followed by 'to') likely to be affected with |
| predisposed | made susceptible |
| suggestible | susceptible or responsive to suggestion |
| temptable | susceptible to temptation |
| unvaccinated | not vaccinated |
| vulnerable | susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation |
| See also | sensitive | Responsive to physical stimuli |
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| unprotected | lacking protection or defense |
| vulnerable | susceptible to attack / attack / attack |
| Opposite | unsusceptible, insusceptible | not susceptible to |
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| Spanish | susceptible |
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| Catalan | susceptible |
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| Nouns | susceptibility, susceptibleness | the state of being susceptible |
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