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Impressionable vs Inquisitive - What's the difference?

impressionable | inquisitive |

As adjectives the difference between impressionable and inquisitive

is that impressionable is being easily influenced (especially of young people) while inquisitive is eager to acquire knowledge.

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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    inquisitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Eager to acquire knowledge.
  • * I. Watts
    • A young, inquisitive , and sprightly genius.
  • Too curious; overly interested; nosy.
  • * Broome
    • A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent.
  • * Episode 16
    • Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say. Now you mention it' his face was familiar to me. But, leaving that for the moment, how much did you part with, he queried, if I am not too ' inquisitive ?

    Derived terms

    * inquisitively * inquisitiveness