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单词 suggestible
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Definition of suggestible in English:

suggestible

adjective səˈdʒɛstɪb(ə)lsə(ɡ)ˈdʒɛstəb(ə)l
  • Open to suggestion; easily swayed.

    接受建议的;耳根软的,易受影响的

    a suggestible client would comply

    耳根软的客户是会照办的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With splurges of feel-good images they deal mostly in generalities, creating an atmosphere sufficiently spiritual and sedative to entice the suggestible hordes to invest their savings.
    • We know that a person under hypnosis is very suggestible and that memory is easily ‘filled-in’ by the imagination and by suggestions made under hypnosis.
    • He says he wants open suggestible people and that's what they were.
    • Suppose that someone sees something and as a result becomes suggestible to all sorts of ‘promptings’ whether true or false, concerning what he has done and observed.
    • The appellant's whole case on the confessions to the police officers was that he was highly suggestible.
    • And anyone thinking of trying it probably should give the matter a bit of thought beforehand, especially if you tend to be suggestible.
    • They should know that all of us are pliable and suggestible to some degree, but that children are especially vulnerable to suggestive and leading questioning.
    • Even the less emotionally suggestible people will be unwilling not to comply when those around them expect it.
    • Although the process of hypnosis will allow the participant to become more suggestible, the hypnotist cannot ever compel his subject to act in a certain way.
    • He believed that while in groups, individuals lose their normal restraints, become more suggestible, more emotional, and less rational.
    • There is, however, the additional finding that the appellant was suggestible and compliant to an abnormally high degree.
    • There is plenty of evidence that he was vulnerable in the interview situation and said things to please the police, but rather less that he was suggestible to the point of giving consciously self-incriminating admissions.
    • Now that he has looked at himself closely, the sprinter knows he was naive, headstrong and suggestible.
    • Others argue that highly suggestible people are having the multiple personalities implanted subconsciously by well-meaning but misguided counsellors.
    • But a Channel 4 spokesman said yesterday: ‘People who are suggestible to that sort of behaviour should not have access to handguns.’
    • In addition, they seem to do so in a clandestine, even secretive fashion, targeting those who are not only the most pliant and suggestible, but also the easiest to intimidate, shame or bribe into silence.
    • It is not admissible simply to show that in the doctor's opinion an accused, who is not suffering from such illness or condition, is especially timid, suggestible or vulnerable to pressure and threats.
    • People are suggestible, he says, and feel that they are taking risks.
    • Only responsible citizens should vote, not the ignorant and suggestible.
    • Good doctors have known for centuries that people are suggestible.
    Synonyms
    open-minded, ready to consider new ideas, willing to consider new ideas, open to new ideas, open to suggestions, open, responsive, amenable, sympathetic, well disposed, interested, attuned, flexible, willing, favourable, approachable, accessible, friendly, welcoming

Derivatives

  • suggestibility

  • noun sədʒɛstɪˈbɪlɪtisə(ɡ)ˌdʒɛstəˈbɪlədi
    • Cacheris says: ‘Once again the evidence shows suggestibility.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The traditional positive correlation of absorption and suggestibility essentially dropped out for males, but not for females, when the suggestions were assertively worded, but not when they were nonassertively worded.
      • The suggestibility of and ease with which young children can be ‘coached’ has created an environment where children are often perceived as unreliable in their testimony.
      • Being hypnotized is usually described as intense concentration, extreme relaxation, and high suggestibility.
      • Yet I suspect that all it is showing is the enormous suggestibility of the human mind, and that common human desire to fit in.

Rhymes

comestible, digestible

Definition of suggestible in US English:

suggestible

adjectivesə(ɡ)ˈjestəb(ə)lsə(ɡ)ˈdʒɛstəb(ə)l
  • Open to suggestion; easily swayed.

    接受建议的;耳根软的,易受影响的

    a suggestible client would comply

    耳根软的客户是会照办的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We know that a person under hypnosis is very suggestible and that memory is easily ‘filled-in’ by the imagination and by suggestions made under hypnosis.
    • There is plenty of evidence that he was vulnerable in the interview situation and said things to please the police, but rather less that he was suggestible to the point of giving consciously self-incriminating admissions.
    • But a Channel 4 spokesman said yesterday: ‘People who are suggestible to that sort of behaviour should not have access to handguns.’
    • Others argue that highly suggestible people are having the multiple personalities implanted subconsciously by well-meaning but misguided counsellors.
    • It is not admissible simply to show that in the doctor's opinion an accused, who is not suffering from such illness or condition, is especially timid, suggestible or vulnerable to pressure and threats.
    • With splurges of feel-good images they deal mostly in generalities, creating an atmosphere sufficiently spiritual and sedative to entice the suggestible hordes to invest their savings.
    • Now that he has looked at himself closely, the sprinter knows he was naive, headstrong and suggestible.
    • They should know that all of us are pliable and suggestible to some degree, but that children are especially vulnerable to suggestive and leading questioning.
    • Only responsible citizens should vote, not the ignorant and suggestible.
    • Although the process of hypnosis will allow the participant to become more suggestible, the hypnotist cannot ever compel his subject to act in a certain way.
    • He believed that while in groups, individuals lose their normal restraints, become more suggestible, more emotional, and less rational.
    • And anyone thinking of trying it probably should give the matter a bit of thought beforehand, especially if you tend to be suggestible.
    • Even the less emotionally suggestible people will be unwilling not to comply when those around them expect it.
    • Good doctors have known for centuries that people are suggestible.
    • In addition, they seem to do so in a clandestine, even secretive fashion, targeting those who are not only the most pliant and suggestible, but also the easiest to intimidate, shame or bribe into silence.
    • There is, however, the additional finding that the appellant was suggestible and compliant to an abnormally high degree.
    • The appellant's whole case on the confessions to the police officers was that he was highly suggestible.
    • He says he wants open suggestible people and that's what they were.
    • People are suggestible, he says, and feel that they are taking risks.
    • Suppose that someone sees something and as a result becomes suggestible to all sorts of ‘promptings’ whether true or false, concerning what he has done and observed.
    Synonyms
    open-minded, ready to consider new ideas, willing to consider new ideas, open to new ideas, open to suggestions, open, responsive, amenable, sympathetic, well disposed, interested, attuned, flexible, willing, favourable, approachable, accessible, friendly, welcoming
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