Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F.
ductile. See Duct.]
1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives,
persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
Forms their ductile minds
To human virtues. --Philips.
[1913 Webster]
2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
threads.
[1913 Webster]
Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
metals. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ductile
adj 1: easily influenced [syn: malleable]
2: 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: malleable, pliable,
pliant, tensile, tractile]
WordNet (r) 2.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "ductile":
adaptable, bendable, bending, biddable, compliant, convenient,
docile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile,
feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, foolproof,
formable, formative, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable,
like putty, limber, liquid, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable,
manageable, maneuverable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant,
practical, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable,
springy, submissive, submitting, supple, susceptible, tractable,
tractile, untroublesome, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy,
yielding
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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