Synonyms of impressionable

impressionable

adjective

as in inexperienced

easy to influence

The teacher was accused of forcing his political beliefs on impressionable teenagers.

The book had a profound effect on his impressionable young mind.

Related Words

• inexperienced
• naive
• innocent
• genuine
• sincere
• vulnerable
• unsophisticated
• childlike
• persuadable
• malleable
• wide-eyed
• unworldly
• simpleminded
• unaffected
• guileless
• natural
• gullible
• ingenuous
• real
• susceptible
• artless
• suggestible
• dewy-eyed
• unpretentious
• simple
• gee-whiz
• persuasible
• honest
• exploitable
• unwary
• unpretending
• true
• trusting
• trustful

Dissimilar Words

• critical
• insensitive
• cynical
• skeptical
• suspicious
• wary
• sophisticated
• mistrustful
• worldly
• unimpressionable
• cosmopolitan
• cultured
• civilized
• polished
• shrewd
• seasoned
• subtle
• refined
• insusceptible
• wily
• cultivated
• cunning
• crafty
• sharp
• worldly-wise
• affected
• tricky
• sly
• false
• slippery
• shifty
• artificial
• assuming
• foxy
• slick
• dishonest
• pretentious
• designing
• artful
• scheming
• calculating
• underhanded
• fake
• insincere
• arch
• phony
• canny
• guileful
• knavish
• dissembling
• dissimulating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of impressionable

This piece of Florida’s war on woke clamped down on speaking the wrong words in college and university classrooms, particularly about race and color, lest impressionable ears catch wind of an opinion not their own. — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2026

Initially, Giles doesn’t tell Buffy and the Scoobies about any of this, preferring to conceal his rebellious youth from the impressionable youngsters. — ArsTechnica, 7 June 2026

And the most impressionable fans among his multigenerational audience are those too young to be totally engulfed by it. — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 3 June 2026

So when someone like Duran gets harassed after revealing a mental illness – and then expresses regret for having opened up – an impressionable onlooker could decide that talking about their mental health struggles isn’t worth the risk. — Scott Parrott, The Conversation, 26 May 2026