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Synonyms for pliant
ˈplaɪ əntpli·ant
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
pliant
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, pliable, submissive, tame, teachable, tractable, yieldingAntonyms:
determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful
Princeton's WordNet
plastic, pliantadjective
capable of being influenced or formed
"the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature"
Synonyms:
bendable, waxy, flexible, tractile, moldable, elastic, ductile, plastic, shaping, tensile, malleable, formative, fictile, pliableAntonyms:
unimpressionable, unformed, unadaptable, inflexibleductile, 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, ductile, plastic, waxy, tensile, malleable, fictile, pliableAntonyms:
unadaptable, unformed, unimpressionable, inflexibleelastic, 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, ductile, compromising, tensile, whippy, malleable, flexile, fictile, plastic, pliableAntonyms:
unadaptable, unimpressionable, 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, ductile, plastic, waxy, tensile, malleable, fictile, pliableAntonyms:
inflexible, unimpressionable, unformed, unadaptable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
pliantadjective
Synonyms:
PLIABLE
Nicknames
List of known nicknames for "Pliant":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2272 | plastic | |
#3722 | flexible | |
#7995 | compliant | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#11130 | elastic | |
#12411 | shaping | |
#18856 | yielding | |
#22418 | manageable | |
#22879 | tame | |
#25117 | tensile | |
#25632 | compromising | |
#26392 | formative | |
#29257 | submissive | |
#35374 | obedient | |
#38382 | amenable | |
#49824 | ductile | |
#54519 | waxy | |
#57458 | malleable | |
#57879 | pliable | |
#62800 | tractable | |
#66707 | docile | |
#74701 | impressionable | |
#78984 | conciliatory | |
#86641 | bendable | |
#88025 | teachable | |
#89266 | pliant | |
#167082 | moldable | |
#194502 | waxen | |
#237040 | whippy |
Translations for pliant
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- flexibleSpanish
- lùbachScottish Gaelic
- tāngeheMāori
- сговорчивый, податливый, уступчивый, мягкийRussian
- 易弯的Chinese
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