plastic

plastic is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic.
2. adjective. Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
3. adjective. Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
4. adjective. Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
5. noun. a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]
6. noun. a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered

   "do you take plastic?"

7. noun. generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
8. adjective. forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning

   "a formative influence"

   "a formative experience"

   Synonyms: formative, shaping

9. adjective. capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)

   "plastic substances such as wax or clay"

   Synonyms: fictile, moldable

10. adjective. capable of being influenced or formed

    "the plastic minds of children"

    "a pliant nature"

    Synonyms: pliant

Synonyms

formative, shaping, fictile, moldable, pliant

Common word forms

plastics, plasticly, plasticise, plasticity, plasticize

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