pliable

pliable is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as verb and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 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 15 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. verb. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
2. verb. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.
3. adjective. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking

   "a flexible wire"

   "a pliant young tree"

   Synonyms: bendable, pliant, waxy

4. adjective. able to adjust readily to different conditions

   "an adaptable person"

   "a flexible personality"

   Synonyms: elastic, flexible, pliant

5. adjective. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

   "ductile copper"

   "malleable metals such as gold"

   Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliant, tensile, tractile

6. adjective. susceptible to being led or directed

   "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"

   Synonyms: fictile

Synonyms

bendable, pliant, waxy, elastic, flexible, ductile, malleable, tensile, tractile, fictile

Common word forms

pliableness

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