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

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

In my impressionable eyes, no one was cooler than Mike Bailey. — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026

Zachary Taylor, who was asking for a five-year sentence, described him as an impressionable young man who suffered from depression and was pulled into the algorithmic vortex of hate speech on social media. — John Annese, New York Daily News, 13 May 2026

Josh Groban’s first impressionable experience with the Hollywood Walk of Fame is tied in his memory to a passion that, at one time, could have taken him down a completely different career path. — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 6 May 2026