pliable

3 definitions found

pliable - 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]

pliable - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pliable
      adj 1: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of
             people ripe for propaganda" [syn: fictile, pliable]
      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: ductile, malleable,
         pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
      3: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable
         person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a
         contract" [syn: elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant]
      4: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
         "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" [syn: bendable,
         pliable, pliant, waxy]

pliable - 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