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malleable

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mal·le·a·ble  (ml--bl)
adj.
1. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure: a malleable metal.
2. Easily controlled or influenced; tractable.
3. Able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable: the malleable mind of the pragmatist.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mallebilis, from mallere, to hammer, from Latin malleus, hammer; see mel- in Indo-European roots.]
malle·a·bili·ty, malle·a·ble·ness n.
malle·a·bly adv.
Synonyms: malleable, ductile, plastic, pliable, pliant
These adjectives mean capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out: malleable metals such as gold and silver; ductile copper; a plastic substance such as wax; soaked the leather to make it pliable; pliant molten glass.
malleable [mal-lee-a-bl]
Adjective
1. (esp. of metal) capable of being hammered or pressed into shape without breaking
2. able to be influenced [Medieval Latin malleabilis]
malleability n
malleably adv
malleable  (ml--bl)
Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress. Gold is the most malleable metal. Compare ductile.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.malleable - easily influenced
ductile
manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
2.malleablemalleable - 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"
tractile, ductile, pliable, pliant, tensile
formed - having or given a form or shape
malleable
adjective 1. manageable, adaptable, compliant, impressionable, pliable, tractable, biddable, governable, like putty in your hands
adjective 2. workable, soft, plastic, tensile, ductile
Translations
Spanish malleable [ˈmælɪəbl] adj → maleable
French malleable [ˈmælɪəbl] adj → malléable
German malleable [ˈmælɪəbl] adj (lit, fig) → formbar
Italian malleable [ˈmælɪəbl] adj → malleabile
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This metal, in fact, is the most tenacious, the most ductile, and the most malleable, and consequently suitable for all moulding operations; and when smelted with pit coal, is of superior quality for all engineering works requiring great resisting power, such as cannon, steam boilers, hydraulic presses, and the like.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
When the substance is in a proper state for the next process, it betrays evidences of incipient decomposition; the fibres are relaxed and softened, and rendered perfectly malleable.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
In effect, a large compass of beautiful thought and expression, from poetry old and new, have become to him matter malleable anew for a further and finer reach of literary art.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
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