pliable

Speech parts

1. pliable - Adjective

3. pliable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.

Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

flexible elastic tensile malleable ductile waxy pliant bendable fictile tractile putty marly flex compressible fluid
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Antonyms

flint set strong stern durum bullhead
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Related terms

ply pliant pliability pliancy

Phrases with the word

became pliable

Examples

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. Mark Twain

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end. Clement Greenberg

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. Max Horkheimer

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin. Tia Carrere

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay. Anne Brontë

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong. Zen Proverb

Close letter words and terms

PLF PlGF pliability pliableness pliably pliancy