What are some alternative words for pliable?
Synonyms for pliable
ˈplaɪ ə bəl
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Princeton's WordNet
fictile, pliable(adj)
susceptible to being led or directed
"fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
Synonyms:
bendable, flexible, tractile, moldable, elastic, pliant, ductile, plastic, waxy, tensile, malleable, fictileAntonyms:
unformed, insusceptible, inflexible, unsusceptible, unadaptableductile, 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"
Synonyms:
bendable, flexible, tractile, elastic, pliant, ductile, plastic, waxy, tensile, malleable, fictileAntonyms:
unformed, unsusceptible, inflexible, unadaptable, insusceptibleelastic, flexible, pliable, pliant(adj)
able to adjust readily to different conditions
"an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
Synonyms:
conciliatory, bendable, flexible, tractile, waxy, elastic, pliant, ductile, compromising, tensile, whippy, malleable, flexile, fictile, plasticAntonyms:
insusceptible, unadaptable, unsusceptible, inflexible, unformedbendable, pliable, pliant, waxy(adj)
capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
"a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
Synonyms:
impressionable, bendable, waxlike, flexible, tractile, waxen, elastic, impressible, pliant, ductile, plastic, waxy, tensile, malleable, fictileAntonyms:
insusceptible, unsusceptible, inflexible, unformed, unadaptable
English Synonyms and Antonyms
pliable
One who is docile is easily taught; one who is tractable is easily led; one who is pliant is easily bent in any direction; compliant represents one as inclined or persuaded to agreement with another's will. Compare DUTY.
Synonyms:
amenable, compliant, docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, pliant, submissive, tame, teachable, tractable, yieldingAntonyms:
determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
pliable
Synonyms:
flexible, supple, limber, like, ductile, yielding, manageable, facile, lithe, pliantAntonyms:
stiff, stubborn, brittle, unbending, unyielding, unmanageable, inexorable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
pliable(a.)
Synonyms:
flexible, flexile, pliant, supple, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bentpliable(a.)
Synonyms:
compliant, yielding, manageable, tractable, DOUGH-FACED, easily persuaded
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "pliable":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#96 | like | |
#2272 | plastic | |
#3722 | flexible | |
#7995 | compliant | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#11130 | elastic | |
#18856 | yielding | |
#22418 | manageable | |
#22879 | tame | |
#25117 | tensile | |
#25632 | compromising | |
#29257 | submissive | |
#29634 | supple | |
#35374 | obedient | |
#38382 | amenable | |
#47735 | facile | |
#49824 | ductile | |
#54519 | waxy | |
#57458 | malleable | |
#57879 | pliable | |
#62800 | tractable | |
#66707 | docile | |
#74701 | impressionable | |
#78984 | conciliatory | |
#83606 | lithe | |
#86641 | bendable | |
#86785 | limber | |
#88025 | teachable | |
#89266 | pliant | |
#167082 | moldable | |
#194502 | waxen | |
#237040 | whippy |
How to use pliable in a sentence?
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Truth can not be manipulated in the slightest. It is the perception of truth that is pliable. To dismiss truth as a fairy tale is the endeavor of the fool.
The idea is that you never finish the list, and the list is pliable, and you are constantly adding and subtracting.
It keeps my muscles pliable.
Carol Doda's Breasts are up there the way one imagines Electra's should have been, two incredible mammiform protrusions, no mere pliable mass of feminine tissues and fats there but living arterial sculpture––viscera spigot––great blown-up aureate morning glories.
Translations for pliable
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- biegsam, geschmeidigGerman
- plegadizoSpanish
- notkea, taipuisaFinnish
- pliant, pliableFrench
- so-lhoobaghManx
- लचीलाHindi
- flessibile, adattabile, pieghevole, malleabile, modellabileItalian
- גָמִישׁHebrew
- しなやか, 曲げやすいJapanese
- kōpēpē, kōngoheMāori
- giętkiPolish
- flexível, moldável, maleávelPortuguese
- pliant, pliabilRomanian
- гибкийRussian
- савитљив, savitljivSerbo-Croatian
- ohybný, poddajný, tvárnySlovak
- smidigSwedish
- ยืดหยุ่นได้Thai
- 易彎的Chinese
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