Search Result for "pliable":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (4)
1. susceptible to being led or directed;
- Example: "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
[syn: fictile, pliable]
2. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out;
- Example: "ductile copper"
- Example: "malleable metals such as gold"
- Example: "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"
- Example: "pliant molten glass"
- Example: "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
[syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
3. able to adjust readily to different conditions;
- Example: "an adaptable person"
- Example: "a flexible personality"
- Example: "an elastic clause in a contract"
[syn: elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant]
4. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
- Example: "a flexible wire"
- Example: "a pliant young tree"
[syn: bendable, pliable, pliant, waxy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pliable \Pli"a*ble\, a. [F., fr. plier to bend, to fold. See Ply, v.] 1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. [1913 Webster] 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth. "Pliable she promised to be." --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster] -- Pli"a*ble*ness, n. -- Pli"a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "pliable": abulic, accessible, adaptable, afraid, amenable, appliable, applicable, apt, bendable, bending, bendy, biddable, bright, clever, compliant, convenient, cowardly, creased, crimped, docile, dog-eared, doubled, ductile, educable, elastic, exploitable, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, faint, fainthearted, feasible, feeble, feebleminded, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, foolproof, formable, formative, frail, gathered, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable, infirm, influenceable, instructable, intelligent, invertebrate, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, manipulable, manipulatable, moldable, motivated, movable, open, open-minded, operable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plaited, plastic, pleated, pliant, plicate, plicated, plicatile, practical, quick, quilled, ready, receptive, responsive, reusable, ripe for instruction, ruffled, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, spineless, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, tucked, twilled, untroublesome, usable, utilizable, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-willed, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willing, willowy, workable, yielding
