Pliable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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