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| Main Entry: |
ductile
 [duhk-tl, -til] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliant, flexible |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, amenable, biddable, docile, extensile, malleable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliable, responsive, submitting, supple, tractable, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, intractable, stiff, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | docile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant, submissive |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, acquiescent, adaptable, agreeable, amenable, biddable, childlike, complacent, cool, docious, ductile, easily influenced, easy, easygoing, gentle, governable, humble, laid-back, manageable, meek, mellow, mild, obedient, obliging, orderly, pliable, pliant, quiet, resigned, soft, tame, teachable, tractable, usable, weak-kneed, well-behaved, willing, yielding |
| Antonyms: | determined, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, stubborn, uncooperative, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | elastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliant, rubbery |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, bouncy, buoyant, ductile, extendible, extensible, flexible, irrepressible, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, resilient, rubberlike, springy, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tempered, yielding |
| Antonyms: | inelastic, rigid, stiff, tense, unflexible, unyielding |
Example Sentences
- It is eminently susceptible of dramatic expression, but is not very ductile.
- Glass would be more durable based on it being harder, brittle and higher tensile than softer, ductile plastic.
- The metal is strong and has low density; it is ductile when pure and malleable .
| Main Entry: | flexible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliable, bendable |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, spongy, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | brittle, inflexible, resistant, rigid, stiff, unbendable, unpliable, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | limp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not stiff; weak |
| Synonyms: | bending, debilitated, drooping, droopy, ductile, enervated, exhausted, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flexuous, flimsy, floppy, impressible, infirm, languid, languishing, lax, lethargic, limber, listless, loose, plastic, pliable, pliant, relaxed, slack, soft, spent, spiritless, supple, tired, unsubstantial, weakened, wearied, worn out, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, rigid, stiff, straight, strong, unbending |
| Main Entry: | malleable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, compliant, ductile, flexible, go-with-the-flow, governable, impressionable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliant, putty in hands, rolls with punches, soft, submissive, supple, tractable, tractile, transformable, workable, yielding |
| Antonyms: | firm, rigid, stiff |
| Main Entry: | plastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flexible, soft; made of manufactured, treated compounds |
| Synonyms: | bending, ductile, elastic, fictile, formable, moldable, molded, pliable, pliant, resilient, shapeable, supple, workable |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, stiff |
| Main Entry: | plastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily influenced |
| Synonyms: | amenable, bending, compliant, docile, ductile, flexible, giving, impressionable, influenceable, malleable, manageable, moldable, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, unflappable |
| Main Entry: | pliable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bendable, adaptable |
| Synonyms: | compliant, docile, ductile, easily led, easy, flexible, impressionable, limber, lithe, malleable, manageable, manipulable, moldable, obedient, plastic, pliant, putty, receptive, responsive, rolling with the punches, spongy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, rigid, stiff, unadaptable, unbendable, unpliable, unpliant, unyielding |
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