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pliable, pliant
adj. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
Fuzzynyms (24)
elastic, pliable, pliant, flexible
adj. able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
plastic, pliant
adj. capable of being influenced or formed; "the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature"
ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile
adj. 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"
ductile, malleable
adj. easily influenced
slender, supple, lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, svelte, sylphlike, sylph-like
adj. moving and bending with ease
tractable
adj. easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
Synonyms (4)
double-jointed
adj. having unusually flexible joints especially of the limbs or fingers
limber, supple
adj. (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
stretched
adj. (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching; "well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury"
Antonyms (1)
inflexible
adj. resistant to being bent; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade";
bendable
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