susceptible

English

Etymology

FromLate Latinsusceptibilis,fromLatinsusceptus,fromsuscipiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/səˈsɛptɪbl̩/

• Audio(US):

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Adjective

susceptible(comparativemoresusceptible,superlativemostsusceptible)

1. Likelyto beaffectedby something.

   He wassusceptibleto minor ailments.

2. Easilyinfluencedortricked;credulous.
3. (medicine)Especiallysensitive,particularly to astimulus.
4. That, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result.

   Rational numbers aresusceptibleof description as quotients of two integers.

   A properly prepared surface issusceptibleof an enduring paint job.

5. Vulnerable.
   • 2013August 14, Daniel Taylor,The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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 sosusceptibleat the back.

6. Amenable.
   • 2018,Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent,Recursive Macroeconomic Theory,fourth edition, MIT Press, page114:

     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 equationsusceptibleto further analysis and computation.

Derived terms

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

Translations

likely to be affected by

• Arabic:عرضه
• Bulgarian:податлив(bg)m(podatliv)
• Catalan:susceptible
• Czech:náchylným
• Dutch:vatbaar(nl)
• Finnish:altis(fi)
• German:anfällig(de),beeindruckbar,empfänglich(de),empfindlich(de),suszeptible(de),störempfindlich
• Greek:ενδεχόμενος(el)(endechómenos)
• Hungarian:fogékony(hu),hajlamos(hu)
• Kazakh:қабылдағыш(qabyldağyş)
• Persian:پذیرفتار(fa)(paziroftâr)
• Polish:podatny(pl)
• Portuguese:suscetível(pt),passível(pt)
• Romanian:susceptibil(ro)
• Russian:восприи́мчивый(ru)(vospriímčivyj),поддаю́щийся(ru)(poddajúščijsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:подложноn,pȍdložan(sh)
• Spanish:propenso(es),susceptible(es),vulnerable(es)
• Swedish:känslig(sv),mottaglig(sv)
• Turkish:duyarlı(tr),elverişli(tr),müsâit
• Ukrainian:сприйнятливийm(spryjnjatlyvyj),піддатливийm(piddatlyvyj)

especially sensitive

• Bulgarian:чувствителен(bg)m(čuvstvitelen)
• Czech:náchylným
• Dutch:vatbaar(nl)
• Esperanto:incitiĝema,ofendiĝema
• Finnish:herkkä(fi),herkistynyt(fi)
• French:susceptible(fr)
• German:empfindlich(de)
• Greek:επιδεκτικός(el)(epidektikós)
• Hungarian:érzékeny(hu)
• Polish:wrażliwy(pl)
• Portuguese:suscetível(pt)
• Russian:восприи́мчивый(ru)(vospriímčivyj),чувстви́тельный(ru)(čuvstvítelʹnyj)
• Spanish:sensible(es),sensitivo,delicado(es)
• Ukrainian:вразливийm(vrazlyvyj),чутливийm(čutlyvyj)

that, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result

• Hungarian:-ható(hu),-hető(hu),képes(hu),alkalmas(hu)

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• Chinese:^{(pleaseverify)}Mẫn duệ đích,^{(pleaseverify)}Dịch thụ động diêu đích,^{(pleaseverify)}Đa sầu thiện cảm đích

Noun

susceptible(pluralsusceptibles)

1. (epidemiology)A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
   • 1983,Topley & Wilson, editors,General Microbiology & Immunity‎^[2],→ISBN,page417:

     In either instance a decrease in the number ofsusceptibles,by making the spread of virus less easy, tends towards a stage at which the infection dies out.

Coordinate terms

• immune
• infective

Catalan

Etymology

BorrowedfromLate Latinsusceptibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[su.səpˈtib.blə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[su.sepˈti.ble]

Adjective

susceptiblemorf(masculine and feminine pluralsusceptibles)

1. sensitive
2. subject(deto)

   susceptiblede fluctuacions―subjectto fluctuations

3. (figuratively)touchy,oversensitive,easily offended

Derived terms

• susceptibilitat

Further reading

• “susceptible”inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

BorrowedfromLate Latinsusceptibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/sy.sɛp.tibl/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

susceptible(pluralsusceptibles)

1. likely,liable

   Cet incident estsusceptibled’entraîner une crise diplomatique.

   This incident isliableto lead to a diplomatic crisis.

2. huffy,thin-skinned,touchy

   Évite de le critiquer, il est trèssusceptible.

   Avoid criticising him, he's verytouchy.

Derived terms

• susceptibilité

References

• “susceptible”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Spanish

Etymology

BorrowedfromLate Latinsusceptibilis,fromLatinsusceptus,fromsuscipiō(“to undertake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(Spain)/susθebˈtible/[sus.θeβ̞ˈt̪i.β̞le]
• IPA^(key):(Latin America, Philippines)/susebˈtible/[su.seβ̞ˈt̪i.β̞le]
• Rhymes:-ible
• Syllabification:sus‧cep‧ti‧ble

Adjective

susceptiblemorf(masculine and feminine pluralsusceptibles)

1. amenable
2. sensitive
3. capable(of),susceptible(to) (followed byde,and an action)

   "frágil"significa que essusceptiblederomperse

   "fragile" means that it iscapableof being broken

Derived terms

• susceptibilidad

Further reading

• “susceptible”,inDiccionario de la lengua española,Vigésima tercera edición,Real Academia Española,2014