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Synonyms for pliable
ˈplaɪ ə bəlpli·able
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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
Princeton's WordNet
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, fictileAntonyms:
unformed, insusceptible, inflexible, unsusceptible, unadaptableductile, 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, fictileAntonyms:
unformed, unsusceptible, inflexible, unadaptable, insusceptibleelastic, 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, plasticAntonyms:
insusceptible, unadaptable, unsusceptible, inflexible, unformedbendable, 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, fictileAntonyms:
insusceptible, unsusceptible, inflexible, unformed, unadaptable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
pliableadjective
Synonyms:
flexible, flexile, pliant, supple, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bentpliableadjective
Synonyms:
compliant, yielding, manageable, tractable, DOUGH-FACED, easily persuaded
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #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?
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Translations for pliable
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- geschmeidig, biegsamGerman
- plegadizoSpanish
- notkea, taipuisaFinnish
- pliant, pliableFrench
- so-lhoobaghManx
- लचीलाHindi
- modellabile, malleabile, flessibile, pieghevole, adattabileItalian
- גָמִישׁHebrew
- 曲げやすい, しなやかJapanese
- kōpēpē, kōngoheMāori
- giętkiPolish
- maleável, moldável, flexívelPortuguese
- pliant, pliabilRomanian
- гибкийRussian
- savitljiv, савитљивSerbo-Croatian
- poddajný, tvárny, ohybnýSlovak
- smidigSwedish
- ยืดหยุ่นได้Thai
- 易彎的Chinese
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