susceptible
Open to influence
Susceptible means likely to be affected by something, usually something undesirable.
A person susceptible to colds catches them easily.
Someone susceptible to flattery is easily swayed by it.
The word implies vulnerability or openness to influence: The young are particularly susceptible to peer pressure.
Susceptible can also mean capable of undergoing something: a theory susceptible to proof.
Out in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- at-riskSubject to potential harm
- endangeredAt risk of extinction
threatened · precarious · assailable · unshielded · unguarded · open · weak · fragile
Reduced ability to fight infection
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- contagiousTransmissible between people
- predisposedInclined beforehand
- pathogensDisease-causing microorganisms
vulnerable · at-risk · chronic · autoimmune · allergies · hereditary · genetics · compromised
Able to be convinced
- suggestibleEasily influenced by others
- manipulableCapable of being controlled
- swayableAble to be persuaded
- amenableWilling to comply
compliant · malleable · pliant · yielding · docile · acquiescent · obedient · submissive
Receptive to different ideas
- responsiveQuick to react
- sensitiveEasily affected emotionally
- attunedAdjusted to perceive
- empatheticFeeling what others feel
aware · attentive · interested · engaged · absorbent · welcoming · inclined · disposed
exposed
Out in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- at-riskSubject to potential harm
endangered · threatened · precarious · assailable · unshielded · unguarded · open · weak · fragile · delicate
immunocompromised
Reduced ability to fight infection
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- contagiousTransmissible between people
- predisposedInclined beforehand
pathogens · vulnerable · at-risk · chronic · autoimmune · allergies · hereditary · genetics · compromised · weakened
persuadable
Able to be convinced
- suggestibleEasily influenced by others
- manipulableCapable of being controlled
- swayableAble to be persuaded
amenable · compliant · malleable · pliant · yielding · docile · acquiescent · obedient · submissive · accommodating
open-minded
Receptive to different ideas
- responsiveQuick to react
- sensitiveEasily affected emotionally
- attunedAdjusted to perceive
empathetic · aware · attentive · interested · engaged · absorbent · welcoming · inclined · disposed · sympathetic
naive
Innocently unsuspecting
- gullibleEasily deceived
- credulousProne to blind trust
- inexperiencedLacking practical knowledge
unworldly · immature · unformed · youthful · trusting · innocent · green · unsophisticated · wide-eyed · unguarded
- Microbial TestingMIC, bacterial culture, growth inhibition, inoculum, culture plate
- prone tolikely, apt, liable, inclined, disposed
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
- status effectsdebuffed, poison, hexed, burn, cursed
- Tendenciesprone, apt, inclined, liable, tendency
- Fluflu, flu shot, flu vaccine, flu season, flu symptoms
susceptibleimmune
Protected from harm
resistant · invulnerable · impervious · protected · insusceptible
susceptibleskeptical
Inclined to question claims
sceptical · resistant · impervious · unpersuadable · cynical
susceptibleunresponsive
Failing to react or reply
insensible · impassive · unmoved · stoic · thick-skinned
susceptibility, susceptibilities, insusceptible, insusceptibility