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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

pliable
    adj 1: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of
           people ripe for propaganda" [syn: fictile, pliable]
    2: 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" [syn: ductile, malleable,
       pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
    3: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable
       person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a
       contract" [syn: elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant]
    4: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
       "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" [syn: bendable,
       pliable, pliant, waxy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pliable \Pli"a*ble\, 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   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. "Pliable she promised to be." --Dr. H. More.
      [1913 Webster] -- Pli"a*ble*ness, n. -- Pli"a*bly,
      adv.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for pliable:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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