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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pliable
adj 1: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of
people ripe for propaganda" [syn: fictile]
2: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an
adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic
clause in a contract" [syn: elastic, flexible, pliant]
3: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
"a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" [syn: bendable,
pliant]
4: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile
copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the
leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made
of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable,
pliant, tensile, tractile]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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