Definition of Susceptible
Susceptible
Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
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Susceptible Quotations
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
Giacomo Casanova
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Desiderius Erasmus
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
Howard Zinn
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Linda Ellerbee
But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.
Payne Stewart
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
Suzanne Fields
Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.
Jurgen Habermas
Susceptible Translations
susceptible in Swedish is mottaglig
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