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Meaning of 'pliable'
Meaning of 'pliable' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Pliable 
[ v.]
- Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent;
flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable
plant. [ v.]- Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.
Meaning of 'pliable' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. pliable [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
- capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
Example in sentence:
- a flexible wire;
- a pliant young tree
Meaning (2):
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
Example in sentence:
- a flexible personality;
- an adaptable person;
- an elastic clause in a contract
Meaning (3):
- capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
- capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
Example in sentence:
- ductile copper;
- made of highly tensile steel alloy;
- malleable metals such as gold;
- pliant molten glass;
- they soaked the leather to made it pliable
Meaning (4):
- susceptible to being led or directed
- susceptible to being led or directed
Example in sentence:
- fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda
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