Meaning of PLIANT
| Pronunciation: | | 'plIunt
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- [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"
- [adj] capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
- [adj] able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
- [adj] capable of being influenced or formed; "the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature"
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| | Synonyms: | | adaptable, bendable, ductile, elastic, flexible, flexile, impressible, impressionable, malleable, plastic, pliable, tensile, tractile |
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| | Definition: | | \Pli"ant\, a. [F. pliant, p. pr. of plier to bend. See
{Ply}, v.]
1. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or
pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe;
limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also
used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil;
tractable; as, a pliant heart.
The will was then ductile and pliant to right
reason. --South.
2. Favorable to pliancy. [R.] ``A pliant hour.'' --Shak. --
{Pli"ant*ly}, adv. -- {Pli"ant*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, ardent, bendable, bending, biddable, complaisant, compliant, conformable, consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, disposed, docile, ductile, eager, elastic, enthusiastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, foolproof, formable, formative, forward, game, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, influenceable, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, minded, moldable, movable, obedient, open, open-minded, other-directed, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, practical, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, spongy, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, tractable, tractile, unaustere, undemanding, unexacting, unharsh, unsevere, unstrict, untroublesome, weak, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous |
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