Word Meanings - SUSCEPTIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

up, to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus + 1. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. It sheds on souls susceptible

Additional info about word: SUSCEPTIBLE

up, to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus + 1. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our eternal day. Young. 2. Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart. Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts. Cowper. I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. Lamb. -- Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Sus*cep"ti*bly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUSCEPTIBLE)

• Passible
• Susceptible
• sensible
• sensitive
• impressible
• Sore
• Painful
• irritated
• susceptible
• excoriated
• raw
• scarified
• ulcerous
• grievous
• afflictive
• heavy
• burdensome
• Tender
• delicate
• frail
• yielding
• soft
• effeminate
• weak
• feeble
• compassionate
• affectionate
• careful
• jealous
• gentle
• mild
• meek
• pitiful
• merciful
• pathetic

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUSCEPTIBLE)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to SUSCEPTIBLE)

• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• SCARIFIER
  The instrument used for scarifying. (more info) 1. One who scarifies.
• SCARIFICATOR
  An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• JEALOUSHOOD
  Jealousy. Shak.
• DELICATE
  1. A choice dainty; a delicacy. With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden. 2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• GENTLE
  1. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. Shak. 2. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young. 3. To make kind and docile, as a horse.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• MERCIFUL
  1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• SYMPATHETIC
  1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• THEOPATHETIC; THEOPATHIC
  Of or pertaining to a theopathy.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.