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pli·a·ble

(plī′ə-bəl)

adj.

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

2. Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs: a pliable policy.

3. Easily influenced, persuaded, or controlled: replaced the complainer with a more pliable subordinate.

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

pli′a·bil′i·ty, pli′a·ble·ness n.

pli′a·bly adv.

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pliable

(ˈplaɪəbəl)

adj

easily moulded, bent, influenced, or altered

ˌpliaˈbility, ˈpliableness n

ˈpliably adv

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pli•a•ble

(ˈplaɪ ə bəl)

adj.

1. easily bent; flexible; supple.

2. easily influenced or persuaded; yielding.

3. adjusting readily; adaptable.

[1425–75; late Middle English < Middle French, =pli(er) to bend (see ply²) + -able -able]

pli`a•bil′i•ty, pli′a•ble•ness, n.

pli′a•bly, adv.

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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"

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

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

pliable

adjective

1. Capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out, as by hammering or pressure:

ductile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliant, supple, workable.

2. Capable of adapting or being adapted:

adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, elastic, flexible, malleable, pliant, supple.

3. Easily altered or influenced:

ductile, elastic, flexible, flexile, impressionable, malleable, plastic, pliant, suggestible, supple.

Translations

سَهْل اللي

ohebný

smidig

biegsam

plegadizo

flexible

sveigjanlegur

arrendevole flessibile

lokāmslokans

esnek

易弯的

pliable

[ˈplaɪəbl] ADJ (also fig) → flexible

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pliable

[ˈplaɪəb^əl] adj

[roots, material, bones] → souple

[person] → malléable

pliable

, pliant

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

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pliable

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

pliable

(ˈplaiəbl) adjective

easily bent. pliable wire.

ˌpliaˈbility noun

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