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Definition of "susceptive" []

  • Receptive. (adjective)
  • Susceptible. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "susceptive" in a sentence
  • "Seeing how polarizing the Prop 8 issue was at my daugher's school where kids were obviously parotting their parent's viewpoints (and bullying each other on the playground according to who was pro and who was anti Prop 8), I am particularly worried about how susceptive our youth are to these things."
  • "Boronia notes are rarely found in mass-market perfumes because of its prohibitive cost; but also because it is susceptive to much adulteration, and the world production is extremely limited Arctander mentiones under 1 metric tone per year but that was quite some time ago - I don't know if the production has gone up or down since than."
  • "And that not only makes the country's infrastructure feeble and susceptive to high winds, but it also makes the countryside very susceptible to flash flooding."
Words like "susceptive"
active-intransitive
cotton-growing
data-gathering
densely-packed
densely-populated
fumbler
grain-growing
inhabitable
lands
richly-wooded
semiactive
susceptible
well-peopled
well-situated
well-tested
wheat-growing