impressionable
Quick to absorb
Impressionable describes someone easily influenced by others, especially in forming opinions or habits.
The word usually applies to young people, whose characters and views are still being shaped: an impressionable teenager, children at an impressionable age.
The connotation is often cautionary—impressionable people are vulnerable to manipulation or bad influences.
Easily deceived
- naiveInnocently unsuspecting
- suggestibleEasily influenced by others
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- credulousProne to blind trust
trusting · persuadable · malleable · moldable · pliant · ingenuous · unsophisticated · inexperienced
Not yet mature
- formativeInfluencing development or growth
- developingBecoming more advanced
- immatureNot fully developed
- tenderSoft or sore
adolescent · childhood · teenage · growing · juvenile · inexperienced · unformed · budding
Trusted wisdom-giving advisor
- charismaticCompellingly attractive to others
- persuasiveAble to convince others
- inspiringEvoking enthusiasm or drive
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
leader · guide · coach · motivational · impactful · formative · shaping · molding
gullible
Easily deceived
- naiveInnocently unsuspecting
- suggestibleEasily influenced by others
- vulnerableOpen to attack
credulous · trusting · persuadable · malleable · moldable · pliant · ingenuous · unsophisticated · inexperienced · unquestioning
young
Not yet mature
- formativeInfluencing development or growth
- developingBecoming more advanced
- immatureNot fully developed
tender · adolescent · childhood · teenage · growing · juvenile · inexperienced · unformed · budding · emerging
mentor
Trusted wisdom-giving advisor
- charismaticCompellingly attractive to others
- persuasiveAble to convince others
- inspiringEvoking enthusiasm or drive
authority · leader · guide · coach · motivational · impactful · formative · shaping · molding · guiding
- childlike traitsplayful, curious, innocent, imaginative, young
- naivetenaivety, naive, innocence, gullible, gullibility
- certaintycertain, sure, uncertain, unsure, definite
- youthfulyoung, youthful, juvenile, teenage, adolescent
- childlike innocenceinnocence, wonder, curiosity, playfulness, imagination
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
impressionableunimpressionable
Not readily influenced
insusceptible · resistant · impervious · unresponsive · unswayable
impressionablejaded
Dulled by overindulgence
world-weary · cynical · blasé · hardened · desensitized
impressionablestubborn
Refusing to change course
obstinate · set in one's ways · inflexible · unyielding · rigid