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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: [səˈsɛptɪbl̩]
• (General Australian) IPA: [səˈseptɪbl̩]

形容詞

susceptible (comparative more susceptible, superlative most susceptible)

1. Likely to be affected by something.

   He was susceptible to minor ailments.

2. Easily influenced or tricked; credulous.
3. (medicine) Especially sensitive, particularly to a stimulus.
4. That, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result.

   Synonym: capable

   Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.

   A properly prepared surface is susceptible of an enduring paint job.

5. Vulnerable.
   • 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎:

     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 so susceptible at the back.

6. Amenable.
   • 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, fourth edition, MIT Press, page 114:

     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 equation susceptible to further analysis and computation.

派生語

名詞

susceptible (plural susceptibles)

1. (epidemiology) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
   • 1983, Topley & Wilson, editors, General Microbiology & Immunity‎, →ISBN, page 417:

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

等位語

• immune
• infective