Pliant Synonyms

plīənt
Capable of adapting or being adapted
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. adaptable
  2. adaptive
  3. adjustable
  4. elastic
  5. flexible
  6. malleable
  7. pliable
  8. supple
Easily bent or flexed; pliable.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. malleable

Words Related to Pliant

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Pliant Sentence Examples

  • Its pliant and flexible branches are made into brooms; and in ancient Rome the fasces of the lictors, with which they cleared the way for the magistrates, were made up of birch rods.

  • The true love-birds (Agapornis) may also be said to build nests, for they line their nest-hole with strips of pliant bark.

  • The wood of the hazel is whitish-red, close in texture and pliant, and has when dry a weight of 49 lb per cub.

  • Pain radiated through his body from where she'd shot him, and his normally pliant temper was near the snapping point.

  • True strength lies in a fearless powerlessness, that is not assertive but is equally not pliant to another's will to domination.

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