pliable : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pliable	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pliable
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pliable adj susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda" Synonym(s): fictile, pliable 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" Synonym(s): ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract" Synonym(s): elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" Synonym(s): bendable, pliable, pliant, waxy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pliable \Pli"able\, a. [F., fr. plier to bend, to fold. See {Ply}, v.] 1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable* plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth. [bd]Pliable she promised to be.[b8] --Dr. H. More. -- {Pli"ableness}, n. -- {Pli"a*bly}, adv.