pliable (redirected from pliableness)

pli·a·ble  (pl-bl)

adj.

1. Easily bent or shaped. See Synonyms at malleable.

2. Receptive to change; adaptable: pliable attitudes.

3. Easily influenced, persuaded, or swayed; tractable.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from plier, to bend; see pliant.]

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plia·bili·ty, plia·ble·ness n.

plia·bly adv.

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pliable [ˈplaɪəb^əl]

adj

easily moulded, bent, influenced, or altered

pliability , pliableness n

pliably  adv

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	pliable - susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda" fictile susceptible - (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"
	2.	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" tractile, ductile, malleable, pliant, tensile formed - having or given a form or shape
	3.	pliable - able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract" elastic, flexible, pliant adaptable - capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use; "to succeed one must be adaptable"; "the frame was adaptable to cloth bolts of different widths"
	4.	pliable - capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" bendable, waxy, pliant flexile, flexible - able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches"

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pliable

adjective

1. flexible, plastic, supple, lithe, limber, malleable, pliant, tensile, bendy, ductile, bendable The baskets are made with young, pliable spruce roots.
flexible stiff, rigid

2. compliant, susceptible, responsive, manageable, receptive, yielding, adaptable, docile, impressionable, easily led, pliant, tractable, persuadable, influenceable, like putty in your hands His young queen was pliable and easily influenced.
compliant stubborn, intractable, inflexible, wilful, unyielding, obstinate, headstrong, unbending, obdurate, unadaptable

Translations

pliable [ˈplaɪəbl] ADJ (also fig) → flexible

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pliable [ˈplaɪəb^əl] adj

[roots, material, bones] → souple

[person] → malléable

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pliable, pliant

adj → biegsam; leather → geschmeidig; character, mind, person → formbar; (= docile) → fügsam

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pliable [ˈplaɪəbl] pliant [ˈplaɪənt] adj (substance) → pieghevole, flessibile (fig) (person) → malleabile

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pliable

adj pliable [ˈplaiəbl]

easily bent pliable wire. buigbaar سَهْل اللي гъвкав ohebný smidig biegsam ευλύγιστος, εύκαμπτος flexible painduv قابل انعطاف taipuisa flexible גָמִיש आनम्य gibak,elastičan hajlítható lentur (auð)sveigjanlegur flessibile, pieghevole 曲がりやすい 잘 휘는 lankstus lokāms; lokans mudah dilenturkan plooibaar bøyelig, myk giętki flexível pliabil; flexibil гибкий ohybný upogljiv; prožen savitljiv böjlig ยืดหยุ่น esnek 易彎的 гнучкий لچک دار، ملائم mềm dẻo 易弯的

n pliaˈbility

buigbaarheid سُهولَة اللي гъвкавост ohebnost, vláčnost smidighed die Biegsamkeit ευκαμψία, ελαστικότητα flexibilidad paindlikkus انعطاف پذیری notkeus flexibilité, souplesse גְמִישוּת आनम्यता podatnost,gipkost hajlékonyság, rugalmasság kelenturan sveigjanleiki flessibilità 曲がりやすさ 유연(성) lankstumas lokāmība; lokanība mudahnya dilenturkan plooibaarheid bøyelighet, smidighet giętkość flexibilidade flexibilitate; maleabi­li­tate гибкость ohybnosť upogljivost savitljivo böjlighet ความสามารถในการยอมรับ esneklik 柔韌性 гнучкість, пластичність نرمي سے tính mềm 柔韧性