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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

accessible, adaptable, affected, alive to, amenable, answerable for, apt, apt to, aroused, aware, bendable, bending, bright, capable of, clever, cognizant, compliant, conscious, delicate, dependent on, disposed, docile, ductile, educable, elastic, emotionable, exposed, exposed to, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, gullible, impressed, impressible, impressionable, impressive, in danger of, incident to, inclined, influenceable, influenced, instructable, intelligent, liable, liable to, like putty, likely to, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, motivated, movable, naive, naked, naked to, nonimmune, nonresistant, obliged to, obnoxious, open, open to, open-minded, passible, perceptive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prone, prone to, quick, ready, ready for, receptive, responsible for, responsive, ripe for instruction, roused, schoolable, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to, sentient, sequacious, shapable, soft, softhearted, springy, standing to, stirred, suasible, subject, subject to, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptive, susceptive to, swayable, swayed, sympathetic, teachable, tender, tenderhearted, thirsty for knowledge, touched, tractable, tractile, trainable, warmhearted, weak, whippy, willing, willowy, within range of, yielding

Dictionary Results for susceptible:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

susceptible
    adj 1: (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or
           capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of
           proof" [ant: insusceptible, unsusceptible]
    2: easily impressed emotionally

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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            It sheds on souls susceptible of light,
            The glorious dawn of our eternal day. --Young.
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   2. 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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            Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of
            affronts.                             --Cowper.
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            I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. --Lamb.
      [1913 Webster] -- Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. --
      Sus*cep"ti*bly, adv.
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