persuadable
- Adjective:
- Capable of being convinced or influenced: Describes a person or group whose mind, opinion, or decision can be changed through reasoning, argument, or appeal.
- Open to persuasion: Suggests a willingness to listen to and consider different viewpoints, making one likely to be swayed.
General Use: Used to describe someone who is not rigidly fixed in their opinion and can be influenced.
- The manager was persuadable and agreed to extend the project deadline after hearing our proposal.
- Voters in that district are considered highly persuadable on environmental issues.
Describing a Quality: Often used to characterize a person's nature or a group's typical stance.
- He has a persuadable nature, always willing to listen to a good argument.
- The committee members were surprisingly persuadable once we presented the data.
"Easily persuadable": This phrase emphasizes a heightened susceptibility to influence, which can sometimes carry a slightly negative connotation of being overly impressionable or lacking firm convictions.
- The young intern was easily persuadable, which made her both adaptable and vulnerable to pressure.
Contextual Use: The term is neutral but gains positive or negative shading from context. In negotiations, a "persuadable" counterpart is desirable. In matters of principle, being "too persuadable" might be seen as a weakness.
Persuadability (n): The quality or state of being persuadable.
- The success of the campaign depended on the persuadability of the undecided voters.
Persuade (v): The root verb meaning to cause someone to do or believe something through reasoning or argument.
- Persuasive (adj): Good at persuading someone to do or believe something.
- Amenable: Willing to agree or be influenced.
- Receptive: Willing to consider or accept new suggestions and ideas.
- Tractable: Easily managed or controlled; amenable.
- Open-minded: Willing to consider new ideas; unprejudiced.
- Susceptible: Likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing.
- Obdurate: Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.
- Inflexible: Unwilling to change or compromise.
- Intransigent: Unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.
- Adamant: Refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind.
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being susceptible to persuasion
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