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Synonyms of susceptible in English:

susceptible


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adjective

1‘aggressive TV advertising aimed at susceptible children’

SYNONYMS
impressionable, credulous, gullible, innocent, ingenuous, easily taken in, naive, defenceless, vulnerable, easily led, manageable, acquiescent, adaptable, persuadable, tractable
sensitive, responsive, tender, thin-skinned, highly strung, emotional
ANTONYMS

sceptical, streetwise

2‘people susceptible to blackmail’

SYNONYMS
open to, receptive to, vulnerable to, defenceless against
an easy target for
rare susceptive to

3‘some people are more susceptible to ulcers than others’

SYNONYMS
liable to, prone to, subject to, inclined to, predisposed to, disposed to, given to, easily affected by, in danger of, at risk of, at the mercy of
ANTONYMS

immune, resistant

4‘the resulting database will be susceptible of commercial exploitation’

SYNONYMS
capable of, admitting of, receptive of, open to, responsive to
allowing, permitting
rare susceptive of
ANTONYMS

incapable of, not open to