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

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1. List of paraphrases for "pliable":

   flexible

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How to use pliable in a sentence?

1. Laurence J. Peter:

   Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

2. 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.

3. Phil Keoghan:

   The idea is that you never finish the list, and the list is pliable, and you are constantly adding and subtracting.

4. Danny Amendola:

   It keeps my muscles pliable.

5. 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.

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