impressible

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   easily influenced or affected, especially in one's opinions or character

   Young and impressible, he readily adopted the beliefs of his new companions.

2. 2
   adj

   capable of receiving and retaining a physical impression

   The damp clay remained impressible enough to take the seal's fine details.

Formed from impress + -ible ("capable of being"). Impress came from Latin imprimere ("press into or upon"), from in- + premere ("press"). The figurative sense treats ideas or influences as marks pressed onto a receptive mind.

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