Synonyms of the word pliant


PLIANTADAPTABLE - BENDABLE - DUCTILE - ELASTIC - FLEXIBLE - FLEXILE - FORMED - IMPRESSIBLE - IMPRESSIONABLE - MALLEABLE - PLASTIC - PLIABLE - TENSILE - TRACTILE

pliant

  • adj. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable;…
  • adj. (figuratively) Easily influenced; tractable.

adaptable

  • adj. Capable of adapting or of being adapted.

bendable

  • adj. Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.

ductile

  • adj. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
  • adj. Molded easily into a new form.
  • adj. (rare) Led easily; prone to follow.

elastic

  • adj. Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size…
  • adj. Made of elastic.
  • adj. Of clothing, elasticated.
  • adj. (economics) Sensitive to changes in price.
  • adj. springy; bouncy; vivacious.
  • adj. Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power…
  • n. (uncountable) An elastic material used in clothing, particularly in waistbands and cuffs.
  • n. (countable) An elastic band.

flexible

  • adj. Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking;…
  • adj. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;…
  • adj. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic.
  • n. (chiefly engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible.

flexile

  • adj. flexible.
  • adj. Capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking.

formed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of form.

impressible

  • adj. Capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression; capable of creating an impression.

impressionable

  • adj. Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
  • n. An impressionable person.

malleable

  • adj. Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or…
  • adj. (figuratively) Flexible, liable to change.
  • adj. (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to…

plastic

  • n. (obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
  • n. (archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
  • n. A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.
  • n. Any similar synthetic material, not necessarily thermoplastic.
  • n. (colloquial, metonymically) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
  • n. (slang) Fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest…
  • adj. Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
  • adj. (medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.
  • adj. (dated) Creative, formative.
  • adj. (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
  • adj. Made of plastic.
  • adj. Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz.
  • adj. (slang) Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.

pliable

  • adj. soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded.

tensile

  • adj. Of or pertaining to tension.
  • adj. Capable of being stretched; ductile.

tractile

  • adj. Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.

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