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flexible
Able to bend the body easily; limber; supple
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  1. Able to bend the body easily; limber; supple
  2. Readily bending or twisting the body without injury:
  3. Capable of being bent or flexed; pliable:
pliant
Easily bent or flexed; pliable.
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  1. Easily bent or flexed; pliable.
  2. Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable:
  3. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
plastic
Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling:
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  1. Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling:
  2. Made of a plastic or plastics:
  3. Capable of being shaped or formed:
ductile
Easily stretched without breaking or lowering in material strength. Gold is relatively ductile at room temperature, and most metals become more ductile with increasing temperature.
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  1. Easily stretched without breaking or lowering in material strength. Gold is relatively ductile at room temperature, and most metals become more ductile with increasing temperature.
  2. Relating to rock or other materials that are capable of withstanding a certain amount of force by changing form before fracturing or breaking.
  3. Easily molded; plastic; pliant
malleable
That can be hammered, pounded, or pressed into various shapes without breaking
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  1. That can be hammered, pounded, or pressed into various shapes without breaking
  2. Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress . Gold is the most malleable metal.
  3. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure:
limber
Flexible, pliant, bendable.
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  1. Flexible, pliant, bendable.
  2. Able to bend the body easily; supple; lithe
  3. Easily bent; flexible; pliant
supple
Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
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  1. Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
  2. Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:
  3. Easily bent or twisted; flexible; pliant
elastic
Quick to recover, as from disappointment; resilient:
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  1. Quick to recover, as from disappointment; resilient:
  2. (Economics) Of, relating to, or being a good for which changes in price have a large effect on the quantity demanded or supplied.
  3. Easily resuming original size or shape after being stretched or otherwise deformed; flexible.
bendable
Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
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  1. Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
workable
Capable of being put into effective operation; practicable or feasible:
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  1. Capable of being put into effective operation; practicable or feasible:
  2. Capable of being worked, dealt with, or handled:
  3. Capable of functioning.
tractable
Easily handled or worked; malleable.
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  1. Easily handled or worked; malleable.
pliant
(Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
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  1. (Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
  2. Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable:
  3. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
docile
Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
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  1. Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
  2. Yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable.
  3. Easy to manage or discipline; submissive
compliant
(--- Medicine) Properly following a prescribed course of treatment:
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  1. (--- Medicine) Properly following a prescribed course of treatment:
  2. Inclined or willing to comply; obedient:
  3. Complying or tending to comply; yielding; submissive
persuadable
Easily persuaded, convinced or manipulated
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  1. Easily persuaded, convinced or manipulated
persuasible
Persuadable
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  1. Persuadable
  2. Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.
receptive
Capable of or qualified for receiving.
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  1. Capable of or qualified for receiving.
  2. Ready or willing to receive favorably:
  3. Inclined to the favorable reception of a request, suggestion, etc.
manipulable
Suitable for, or able to be subjected to manipulation.
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  1. Suitable for, or able to be subjected to manipulation.
  2. Gullible or susceptible to persuasion.
  3. Possible to manipulate:
adaptable
Able to adjust oneself to new or changed circumstances
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  1. Able to adjust oneself to new or changed circumstances
  2. Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
  3. That can be adapted or made suitable
flexible
Readily bending or twisting the body without injury:
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  1. Readily bending or twisting the body without injury:
  2. Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
  3. Capable of being bent or flexed; pliable:
malleable
Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress . Gold is the most malleable metal.
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  1. Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress . Gold is the most malleable metal.
  2. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure:
  3. Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
yielding
Producing a good yield; productive
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  1. Producing a good yield; productive
  2. Inclined to give way to pressure, argument, or influence; docile.
  3. Bending easily; flexible
acquiescent
Disposed or willing to acquiesce.
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  1. Disposed or willing to acquiesce.
  2. Acquiescing; agreeing or consenting without protest
manageable
Capable of being managed or controlled:
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  1. Capable of being managed or controlled:
  2. That can be managed; controllable, tractable, contrivable, etc.
  3. Capable of being managed; governable; tractable; subservient.
impressionable
Readily or easily influenced; suggestible:
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  1. Readily or easily influenced; suggestible:
  2. Susceptible of impression; capable of receiving impressions; emotional.
  3. Easily affected by impressions; esp., capable of being influenced intellectually, emotionally, or morally; sensitive
irresolute
Unsure of how to act or proceed; undecided.
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  1. Unsure of how to act or proceed; undecided.
  2. Indecisive or lacking in resolution
  3. Not resolute; wavering in decision, purpose, or opinion; indecisive; vacillating
ductile
Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin:
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  1. Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin:
  2. Relating to rock or other materials that are capable of withstanding a certain amount of force by changing form before fracturing or breaking.
  3. Easily molded; plastic; pliant
flexible
Able to bend the body easily; limber; supple
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  1. Able to bend the body easily; limber; supple
  2. Readily bending or twisting the body without injury:
  3. Capable of being bent or flexed; pliable:
flexile
Flexible; pliant; mobile
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  1. Flexible; pliant; mobile
  2. Capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking
  3. Flexible.
flexuous
Winding or wavering
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  1. Winding or wavering
  2. Bending or winding alternately from side to side; sinuous.
malleable
That can be hammered, pounded, or pressed into various shapes without breaking
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  1. That can be hammered, pounded, or pressed into various shapes without breaking
  2. Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress . Gold is the most malleable metal.
  3. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure:
moldable
Alternative spelling of mouldable.
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  1. Alternative spelling of mouldable.
plastic
Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling:
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  1. Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling:
  2. Made of a plastic or plastics:
  3. Capable of being shaped or formed:
pliant
(Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
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  1. (Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
  2. Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable:
  3. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
supple
Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
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  1. Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
  2. Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:
  3. Easily bent or twisted; flexible; pliant
workable
Practicable; feasible
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  1. Practicable; feasible
  2. Capable of functioning.
  3. Capable of being worked, dealt with, or handled:
adaptable
Able to adjust oneself to new or changed circumstances
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  1. Able to adjust oneself to new or changed circumstances
  2. Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
  3. That can be adapted or made suitable
adaptive
Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
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  1. Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
  2. Readily capable of adapting or of being adapted:
  3. Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
elastic
(Economics) Of, relating to, or being a good for which changes in price have a large effect on the quantity demanded or supplied.
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  1. (Economics) Of, relating to, or being a good for which changes in price have a large effect on the quantity demanded or supplied.
  2. Quick to recover, as from disappointment; resilient:
  3. Easily resuming original size or shape after being stretched or otherwise deformed; flexible.
flexible
Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
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  1. Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
  2. Adjustable to change; capable of modification
  3. Capable of being bent or flexed; pliable:
malleable
Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress . Gold is the most malleable metal.
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  1. Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress . Gold is the most malleable metal.
  2. Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs:
  3. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure:
pliant
(Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
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  1. (Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
  2. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
  3. Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable:
supple
Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:
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  1. Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:
  2. Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
  3. Easily bent or twisted; flexible; pliant
ductile
Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin:
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  1. Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin:
  2. Relating to rock or other materials that are capable of withstanding a certain amount of force by changing form before fracturing or breaking.
  3. Easily molded; plastic; pliant
elastic
Quick to recover, as from disappointment; resilient:
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  1. Quick to recover, as from disappointment; resilient:
  2. (Economics) Of, relating to, or being a good for which changes in price have a large effect on the quantity demanded or supplied.
  3. Easily resuming original size or shape after being stretched or otherwise deformed; flexible.
flexible
Able to bend the body easily; limber; supple
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  1. Able to bend the body easily; limber; supple
  2. Readily bending or twisting the body without injury:
  3. Capable of being bent or flexed; pliable:
flexile
Flexible; pliant; mobile
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  1. Flexible; pliant; mobile
  2. Capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking
  3. Flexible.
impressionable
Readily or easily influenced; suggestible:
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  1. Readily or easily influenced; suggestible:
  2. Easily affected by impressions; esp., capable of being influenced intellectually, emotionally, or morally; sensitive
  3. Capable of receiving an impression:
malleable
That can be hammered, pounded, or pressed into various shapes without breaking
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  1. That can be hammered, pounded, or pressed into various shapes without breaking
  2. Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress . Gold is the most malleable metal.
  3. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure:
plastic
Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling:
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  1. Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling:
  2. Made of a plastic or plastics:
  3. Capable of being shaped or formed:
pliant
(Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
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  1. (Figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
  2. Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable:
  3. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
suggestible
Susceptible to influence by suggestion.
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  1. Susceptible to influence by suggestion.
  2. That can be suggested
  3. Readily influenced by suggestion, often, specif., through hypnosis
supple
Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
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  1. Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
  2. Easily bent or twisted; flexible; pliant
  3. Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:

Synonym Study

  • at a malleable age
  • Malleable is used of that which can be hammered, beaten, or pressed into various forms and figuratively suggests a readiness to be trained, changed, molded, etc. copper is malleable as well as ductile
  • Ductile applies to that which can be finely drawn or stretched out, as copper, and figuratively suggests being easily led
  • Plastic is used of substances, such as plaster or clay, that can be molded into various forms which are retained upon hardening, and figuratively suggests an impressionable quality
  • Pliable and pliant both imply a capability of being easily bent, suggesting the suppleness of a wooden switch and, figuratively, a yielding nature or adaptability
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Sentence Examples

  • Some cold mastics become very pliable with the warmth of the hands.

  • It is extremely magnetic and almost non-magnetic; as brittle as glass and almost as pliable and ductile as copper; extremely springy, and springless and dead; wonderfully strong, and 1 The word " iron " was in 0.

  • The rock wallabies again have short tarsi of the hind legs, with a long pliable tail for climbing, like that of the tree kangaroo of New Guinea, or that of the jerboa.

  • He refused; but his successor, Clement XIV., was more pliable, and in 1773 the Jesuits ceased to be.

  • Her elder son, Hyrcanus II., a pliable weakling, was appointed high priest; her younger son, the energetic Aristobulus, who chafed at his exclusion from office, seized some twenty strongholds and with an army bore down upon Jerusalem.

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