malleable

Speech parts

1. malleable - Adjective

2. malleable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tensile ductile pliable pliant tractile meek marly compressible fluid soft plastic flexible passive susceptible cooperative
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Antonyms

set strong horny determined hard firm
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Related terms

malleability malleate malleableness malleably

Phrases with the word

malleable metal heart malleable fittings

Examples

Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities. Benito Mussolini

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable. Dean Koontz

Rock is much more malleable than ideas. Kim Stanley Robinson

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable... Nicholas Sparks

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. Bono

So if morality is innate, it's certainly malleable. Jerry Coyne

Close letter words and terms

mallcore malle malleability malleable iron malleable metal malleableization