Popular Searches
Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liable |
| Synonyms: | apt, assailable, attackable, beatable, conquerable, disposed, exposed, given, in danger, inclined, open, penetrable, prone, sensitive, subject, susceptible, tending, verisimilar, vincible, vulnerable |
| Main Entry: | impressionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily taught; gullible |
| Synonyms: | affectable, affected, feeling, impressible, influenceable, ingenuous, open, perceptive, plastic, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, suggestible, susceptible, susceptive, vulnerable, wax-like |
| Antonyms: | insusceptible, obstinate, stubborn, unimpressionable, unresponsive |
| Main Entry: | psychic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extrasensory in perception |
| Synonyms: | analytic, cerebral, clairvoyant, immaterial, impressible, impressionable, intellective, intellectual, mental, metaphysical, mystic, occult, preternatural, psychal, psychical, psychogenic, psychological, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, spiritual, supernatural, supersensible, supersensitive, supersensory, supersensual, susceptible, susceptive, telekinetic, telepathic, transmundane, unworldly |
| Main Entry: | responsible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accountable, in charge |
| Synonyms: | answerable, at fault, at the helm, authoritative, bonded, bound, bound to, carrying the load, censurable, chargeable, compelled, constrained, contracted, culpable, decision-making, devolving on, duty-bound, engaged, executive, exposed, fettered, guilty, hampered, held, high, important, in authority, in control, incumbent, liable, minding the store, obligated, obliged, on the hook, open, pledged, subject, susceptive, sworn to, tied, to blame, under contract, under obligation |
| Notes: | to be accountable is to be liable to being called to account or answerable; liable means legally obligated or responsible; and responsible is liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust |
| Antonyms: | excused, exempt, free, immune, irresponsible |
| Main Entry: | responsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick to react |
| Synonyms: | acknowledging, active, alive, answering, awake, aware, compassionate, conscious, forthcoming, impressionable, influenceable, kindhearted, open, passionate, perceptive, persuadable, reactive, receptive, replying, respondent, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, sharp, softhearted, susceptible, susceptive, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted |
| Antonyms: | insensitive, unresponsive, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | susceptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exposed, naive |
| Synonyms: | affected, aroused, be taken in, disposed, easily moved, easy, fall for, given, gullible, impressed, impressible, impressionable, inclined, influenced, liable, mark, movable, nonresistant, obnoxious, open, out on a limb, persuadable, predisposed, prone, pushover, ready, receptive, responsive, roused, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, sitting duck, soft, stirred, subject, sucker, suggestible, susceptive, swallow, swayed, tender, touched, tumble for, vulnerable, wide open |
| Antonyms: | resistant, resisting, unsusceptible |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
