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pliable 音標拼音: [pl'ɑɪəbəl] a. 易曲折的,柔軟的,圓滑的 易曲折的,柔軟的,圓滑的 pliable adj 1: susceptible to being led or directed; " fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { elastic}, { flexible}, { pliable}, { pliant}] 4: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; " a flexible wire"; " a pliant young tree" [ synonym: { bendable}, { pliable}, { pliant}, { waxy}] 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] 126 Moby Thesaurus words for " pliable": abulic, accessible, adaptable, afraid, amenable, appliable, applicable, apt, bendable, bending, bendy, biddable, bright, clever, compliant, convenient, cowardly, creased, crimped, docile, dog- eared, doubled, ductile, educable, elastic, exploitable, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, faint, fainthearted, feasible, feeble, feebleminded, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, foolproof, formable, formative, frail, gathered, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable, infirm, influenceable, instructable, intelligent, invertebrate, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, manipulable, manipulatable, moldable, motivated, movable, open, open- minded, operable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plaited, plastic, pleated, pliant, plicate, plicated, plicatile, practical, quick, quilled, ready, receptive, responsive, reusable, ripe for instruction, ruffled, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, spineless, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, tucked, twilled, untroublesome, usable, utilizable, weak, weak- kneed, weak- minded, weak- willed, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willing, willowy, workable, yielding
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