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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
susceptible
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ But I was as susceptible as any other golfer and loved to look at new equipment.
▪ For some reason, people who get allergies aren't as susceptible to parasites.
▪ Alternatively, artificial footpath surfaces, which are not as susceptible to erosion, may be provided.
▪ And nomatterhow fit you are, you're just as susceptible to the same long-term damage as the average couch potato.
highly
▪ Goats are highly susceptible to Haemonchus contortus particularly when they are precluded from browsing and derive all their food intake from pasture.
less
▪ It is as if literature were perhaps necessarily less susceptible to the temptations of logocentrism than other forms of discourse.
▪ They are less susceptible to breakdown because they have fewer moving parts.
▪ Younger people are less susceptible to these prejudices and it is in the field of education that most can be achieved.
▪ The resulting ungrazed vegetation would be less susceptible to erosion; floristic diversity would increase considerably.
▪ Ciprofloxacin's spectrum of activity encompasses both Gram-negative and Gram-positive pathogens, although anaerobic organisms are generally less susceptible.
▪ She ought to be a little less susceptible to this man who was causing her brother so many problems.
▪ That was in the late 1970s, before the firm redesigned its hardware to make it less susceptible.
▪ Myth is more important than reality in selling places; economic decision-makers are no more or less susceptible than anyone else.
more
▪ Younger branches of S. cordifolia are much more susceptible to damage than older branches.
▪ The Northeastern markets, though, are more susceptible to severe winter weather.
▪ This makes them more susceptible to the effects of Waaagh energy.
▪ In fact, public figures are often more susceptible because they are isolated.
▪ Some potato varieties are more susceptible to enzymic browning than others.
▪ Compared to stand-alone systems, network servers are much more susceptible to attacks where legitimate users are impersonated.
▪ And births to very young and to older women are more susceptible than others to these maladies.
▪ Those who place permanent or temporary personnel are more susceptible to layoffs than State job service employment interviewers.
most
▪ In many cases, Infolink can offer exclusive data about those companies most susceptible to failure.
▪ As drugs kill off the virus most susceptible to them, they leave behind the more resistant strains.
▪ Children with this disease - and they are the most susceptible group - are often pale and stunted.
▪ None the less, ignorance and poverty continue to claim victims, particularly malnourished slum children, who are the most susceptible.
▪ Buildings of less than 20 storeys are the most susceptible to resonance.
▪ Even with subcultures, it is characteristically the females who are the most susceptible to fashion and cosmetic selling.
▪ Also, this form of poverty control and management is most susceptible to applications intended to pacify potentially disorderly groups.
▪ Young horses are usually most susceptible and we have seen several cases associated with stud premises.
particularly
▪ Fair skin has little natural protection and is particularly susceptible to damage.
▪ Then the cells were exposed to cytomegalovirus, to which the muscle cells are particularly susceptible.
▪ Studies have shown evidence that teenagers may be particularly susceptible to depression alter childbirth.
▪ Any equipment on a bare shelf is particularly susceptible to vibration.
▪ People with cardiac and respiratory weaknesses, children, asthmatics and those suffering with bronchitis are particularly susceptible.
▪ Patients with impaired glomerular filtration rate are particularly susceptible to hypermagnesemia when given a magnesium load.
▪ Moreover, the gold market's lengthy depression has made it particularly susceptible to a bull raid.
▪ Syndicated columnists are particularly susceptible to being conned by their important sources.
very
▪ Bottom-up parsers are very susceptible to problems arising from lexical ambiguity.
▪ Women became very susceptible to advertisements aimed at changing fashions, and changing themselves.
▪ Chloroplast membranes are very susceptible to attack by oxygen radicals which are generated as a by-product of photochemistry.
▪ Regimes of the latter type, it appears, tend to be very susceptible to coups.
▪ For example, cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes and tobacco are very susceptible to attacks from the Cucumber Mosaic Virus.
▪ Retail prices are therefore very susceptible to the law of supply and demand.
▪ They were very susceptible to weather conditions.
▪ Not surprisingly, such pains are not very susceptible to the action of conventional analgesics, including opiates.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a susceptible young boy
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this was very much the effect that the Duchess of Argyll always had on susceptible gentlemen.
▪ It is at this free-swimming stage that it is susceptible to treatment.
▪ The greatest challenge is strengthening judicial systems, which in some countries have long been susceptible to bribery or political pressure.
▪ The Northeastern markets, though, are more susceptible to severe winter weather.
▪ Those who place permanent or temporary personnel are more susceptible to layoffs than State job service employment interviewers.
▪ Though this stance protects the groin, it leaves the front foot susceptible to a front sweep.
▪ Well-intentioned white allies of black political groups are even more susceptible to this mistake than most black leaders.
▪ Younger branches of S. cordifolia are much more susceptible to damage than older branches.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Susceptible

Susceptible \Sus*cep"ti*ble\, a. [F., from L. suscipere, susceptum, to take up, to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus (see Sub-) + capere to take. See Capable.]

  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. [1913 Webster] -- Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Sus*cep"ti*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
susceptible

c.1600, from Late Latin susceptibilis "capable, sustainable, susceptible," from Latin suscept-, past participle stem of suscipere "to take, catch, take up, lift up; receive, admit; submit to; sustain, support, bear; acknowledge, accept," from sub "up from under" (see sub-) + capere "to take" (see capable). Susceptive in the same sense is recorded from early 15c. Related: Susceptibly.

Wiktionary
susceptible

a. 1 likely to be affected by something 2 easily influenced or tricked; credulous 3 (context medicine English) especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus 4 that, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result 5 vulnerable; (temporarily) defenseless n. (context epidemiology English) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease

WordNet
susceptible

  1. adj. (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof" [ant: unsusceptible]

  2. easily impressed emotionally

Usage examples of "susceptible".

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible, and they who feel one thing acutely will so feel another.

I varied our pleasures in a thousand different ways, and I astonished her by making her feel that she was susceptible of greater enjoyment than she had any idea of.

His prudence rendered him averse to any great innovation, and though his temper was not very susceptible of zeal or enthusiasm, he always maintained an habitual regard for the ancient deities of the empire.

Secondly, a thing may be befitting to someone by reason of human nature, because human nature is susceptible of it.

Situated as she was, I could not suppose her heart susceptible of harbouring a new affection, and I would have despised myself if I had tried to seduce her by any means in my power.

Although recommendations may be modified over the coming months, currently, when no information is available about whether the implicated strain of anthrax bacteria is especially susceptible to any particular antibiotic, ciprofloxacin or doxycycline is recommended for adults and children, although the course for children varies slightly.

As for the earl, Gower inclined to plead hesitatingly, still to plead, on behalf of a nobleman owning his influence and very susceptible to his wisdom, whose echo of a pointed saying nearly equalled the satisfaction bestowed by print.

The occasion of this seizure is that Guster has a tender heart and a susceptible something that possibly might have been imagination, but for Tooting and her patron saint.

If Philip Hozier was no poet, he was a sailor, and sailors are notoriously susceptible to the charms of the softer sex.

Exposed to increased irradiation, the reproductive cells of many plankton species, up to six times more susceptible to destruction by ultraviolet light, were gradually being destroyed.

Admitting the existence of two principal solid masses whose general direction is from south to north, and that these masses are more susceptible of permeation by the ethereal fluid than the waters in which they are suspended, we have a general solution of the position of the magnetic poles, and of the isogonic, isoclinic, and isodynamic lines.

Braud suggests that these early moments may be more labile, and hence more susceptible, avenues of change in distant healing.

Given our existing defense perimeter, both the refinery sites and mineheads continue susceptible to enemy lobber fire.

You must agree that the quality is injured, because it is no longer susceptible of further augmentation.

I am seventy-two years old, I believe myself no longer susceptible of such follies.