PERSUADABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does persuadable mean? 

• PERSUADABLE (adjective)
  The adjective PERSUADABLE has 1 sense:

1. being susceptible to persuasion

  Familiarity information: PERSUADABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSUADABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being susceptible to persuasion

Synonyms:

convincible; persuadable; persuasible; suasible

Similar:

susceptible ((often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of)

 Context examples 

She thought it could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

When it was thus settled on her sister's side, Emma proposed it to her friend, and found her very persuadable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Upon the whole, she was very persuadable; and it being briefly settled among themselves how it might be done without neglecting his comfort—how certainly Mrs. Goddard, if not Mrs. Bates, might be depended on for bearing him company—Mr. Woodhouse was to be talked into an acquiescence of his daughter's going out to dinner on a day now near at hand, and spending the whole evening away from him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)