Synonyms for pliable
ˈplaɪ ə bəl

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1. 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, fictile

   Antonyms:
   unformed, insusceptible, inflexible, unsusceptible, unadaptable

2. 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"

   Synonyms:
   bendable, flexible, tractile, elastic, pliant, ductile, plastic, waxy, tensile, malleable, fictile

   Antonyms:
   unformed, unsusceptible, inflexible, unadaptable, insusceptible

3. elastic, 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, plastic

   Antonyms:
   insusceptible, unadaptable, unsusceptible, inflexible, unformed

4. bendable, 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, fictile

   Antonyms:
   insusceptible, unsusceptible, inflexible, unformed, unadaptable

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1. 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, yielding

   Antonyms:
   determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pliable

   Synonyms:
   flexible, supple, limber, like, ductile, yielding, manageable, facile, lithe, pliant

   Antonyms:
   stiff, stubborn, brittle, unbending, unyielding, unmanageable, inexorable

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pliable(a.)

   Synonyms:
   flexible, flexile, pliant, supple, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bent

2. pliable(a.)

   Synonyms:
   compliant, yielding, manageable, tractable, DOUGH-FACED, easily persuaded

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pliable(a)

   Synonyms:
   flexible, pliant, supple, limber, lithesome, lithe, flexile, malleable, irresolute, yielding, facile, compliant

   Antonyms:
   impliable, inflexible

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   flexible

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How to use pliable in a sentence?

1. Prof.Salam Al Shereida:

   Decisions are stubborn things, but debates about them are pliable.

2. Bette Davis:

   Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

3. Tom Wolfe:

   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.

4. Mark Twain:

   Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

5. Quentin Crisp:

   Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

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