Associations to the word «Susceptible»

Wiktionary

SUSCEPTIBLE, adjective. Likely to be affected by something
SUSCEPTIBLE, adjective. Easily influenced or tricked; credulous
SUSCEPTIBLE, adjective. (medicine) especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus
SUSCEPTIBLE, adjective. That, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result
SUSCEPTIBLE, adjective. Vulnerable; (temporarily) defenseless
SUSCEPTIBLE, noun. (epidemiology) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease

Dictionary definition

SUSCEPTIBLE, adjective. (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof".
SUSCEPTIBLE, adjective. Easily impressed emotionally.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope