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Synonyms for pliable
ˈplaɪ ə bəlpli·able

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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 Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pliable

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

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

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 2 votes

  1. fictile, pliableadjective

    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, tractileadjective

    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, pliantadjective

    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, waxyadjective

    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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pliableadjective

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

  2. pliableadjective

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pliableadjective

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

    Antonyms:
    impliable, inflexible

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "pliable":

    flexible

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How to use pliable in a sentence?

  1. Danny Amendola:

    It keeps my muscles pliable.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.)

  4. unknown:

    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.

  5. Mark Twain:

    Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.


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