Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

susceptible

[səˈsɛptɪbl̩]

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English

Syllables: sus-cep-ti-ble
IPA: [səˈsɛptɪbl̩]

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Likely to be affected by something.

adj

Easily influenced or tricked; credulous.

adj

Especially sensitive, particularly to a stimulus.

adj

That, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result.

adj

adj

noun

A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease

Example Sentences

"He was susceptible to minor ailments."
"Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers."
"A properly prepared surface is susceptible of an enduring paint job."
"The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back."
"In the next several chapters, we put the basic tools to work in different contexts with particular specification of return and transition equations designed to render the Bellman equation susceptible to further analysis and computation."
"In either instance a decrease in the number of susceptibles, by making the spread of virus less easy, tends towards a stage at which the infection dies out."

Etymology

From Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, from suscipiō.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: *keh₂p-, susceptibilis, susceptus

Regional Pronunciation

American English: [səˈsɛptɪbl̩]
British English: [səˈsɛptɪbl̩]

Inflected Forms

more susceptible (comparative) most susceptible (superlative) susceptibles (plural)

Derived Forms

atherosusceptible hypersusceptible immunosusceptible insusceptible nonsusceptible oversusceptible pansusceptible supersusceptible suscept susceptibility susceptibleness susceptibly

Frequently Paired Words

immune infective

Synonyms

capable exposed impaired open prone receptive sensitive subject susceptible unguarded vulnerable weak

Antonyms

immune resistant unsusceptible

Rhymes With

acceptable unacceptable perceptible

Questions

How do you pronounce susceptible?: The recorded pronunciation is [səˈsɛptɪbl̩].
What does susceptible mean?: Likely to be affected by something.
Where does susceptible come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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