impressible

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression.
    — Like other men who have little religion, Mr. Paul Dangerfield had a sort of vague superstition. He was impressible by omens, though he scorned his own weakness, and sneered at, and quizzed it sometimes in the monologues of his ugly solitude.
  2. Capable of being imprinted upon.
    — The differences of impressible and not impressible; figurable and not figurable; mouldable and not mouldable; scissile and not scissile; and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and and uses which men ordinarily practise; but they are all but the effects of some of these causes following, which we will enumerate without applying them, because that would be too long.
  3. Capable of creating an impression.

词汇关系

衍生词
unimpressible
相关词
impressibility impressibleness impressibly

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Latin impressusder.
Middle English impressen
English impress
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ibilis
Old French -ibleder.
Middle English -ible
English -ible
English impressible
From impress + -ible.
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