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

There is dread and sadness and also anger, not only on behalf of the usual alibi for caring about famous women’s bodies, those masses of impressionable teen-age girls, but on behalf of past and present selves. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2026

He was captivated by both versions as an impressionable kid under the age of 10. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 July 2026

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