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Impressionable vs Prone - What's the difference?

impressionable | prone |

As adjectives the difference between impressionable and prone

is that impressionable is being easily influenced (especially of young people) while prone is lying face downward; prostrate.Wp

As a noun impressionable

is an impressionable person.

impressionable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An impressionable person.
  • * 1942 , Frank Gervasi, War Has Seven Faces
  • They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.

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    prone

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lying face downward; prostrate.(w)
  • *
  • *:But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
  • Having a downward inclination or slope.
  • Shooting from a lying down position.
  • Predisposed, liable, inclined.
  • Derived terms

    * prone to

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