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UNIMPRESSIONABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unimpressionable mean?
• UNIMPRESSIONABLE (adjective)
The adjective UNIMPRESSIONABLE has 1 sense:
1. not sensitive or susceptible to impression
Familiarity information: UNIMPRESSIONABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNIMPRESSIONABLE (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not sensitive or susceptible to impression
Context example:
an unimpressionable mind
Antonym:
impressionable (easily impressed or influenced)
Context examples
But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At least it would be a face worth seeing: the face of a man who was without bowels of mercy: a face which had but to show itself to raise up, in the mind of the unimpressionable Enfield, a spirit of enduring hatred.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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