susceptible

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English

Etymology

From Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, from suscipiō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈsɛptɪbl̩/
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Adjective

susceptible (comparative more susceptible, superlative most susceptible)

  1. Likely to be affected by something.
    He was susceptible to minor ailments.
  2. Easily influenced or tricked; credulous.
  3. (medicine) Especially sensitive, particularly to a stimulus.
  4. That, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result.
    Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.
    A properly prepared surface is susceptible of an enduring paint job.
  5. Vulnerable.
    • 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎:
      The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.
  6. Amenable.
    • 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, fourth edition, MIT Press, page 114:
      In the next several chapters, we put the basic tools to work in different contexts with particular specification of return and transition equations designed to render the Bellman equation susceptible to further analysis and computation.

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Noun

susceptible (plural susceptibles)

  1. (epidemiology) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
    • 1983, Topley & Wilson, editors, General Microbiology & Immunity‎, →ISBN, page 417:
      In either instance a decrease in the number of susceptibles, by making the spread of virus less easy, tends towards a stage at which the infection dies out.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin susceptibilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

susceptible m or f (masculine and feminine plural susceptibles)

  1. sensitive
  2. subject (de to)
    susceptible de fluctuacions ― subject to fluctuations
  3. (figuratively) touchy, oversensitive, easily offended

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin susceptibilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

susceptible (plural susceptibles)

  1. likely, liable
    Cet incident est susceptible d’entraîner une crise diplomatique.
    This incident is liable to lead to a diplomatic crisis.
  2. huffy, thin-skinned, touchy
    Évite de le critiquer, il est très susceptible.
    Avoid criticising him, he's very touchy.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, from suscipiō (“to undertake”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /susθebˈtible/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /susebˈtible/
  • Rhymes: -ible
  • Syllabification: sus‧cep‧ti‧ble

Adjective

susceptible m or f (masculine and feminine plural susceptibles)

  1. amenable
  2. sensitive
  3. capable (of), susceptible (to) (followed by de, and an action)
    "frágil" significa que es susceptible de romperse
    "fragile" means that it is capable of being broken

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