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Meaning of susceptive | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. susceptible
  2. receptive

Examples

“Both extracted if-then rules have their own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore both approaches are susceptive of modifications […].”
“Also children who grow up in poorer households are likely to have poor health status and more susceptive to arsenic-caused illness.”
“[…] Northeast China is one of the most susceptive areas to climage change in the country.”
“1709, Isaac Watts, Preface to Horæ Lyricæ. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, Eighth edition, London: James Brackstone, 1743, pp. xxiv-xxv, https://books.google.ca/books?id=aRIDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Amongst the infinite Numbers of Mankind, there is not more Difference in their outward Shape and Features, than in their Temper and inward Inclination. Some are more easily susceptive of Religion in a grave Discourse and sedate Reasoning. Some are best frighted from Sin and Ruin by Terror, […] : Others can feel no Motive so powerful as that which applies itself to their Ingenuity, and their polish'd Imagination.”
“Deducting one-third for rocks, cliffs, and places not susceptive of culture,—and for houses, buildings of all sorts, streets and roads, say 5,120; there remain, fit for cultivation, 10,240 English acres.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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