Synonyms for pliable
ˈplaɪ ə bəlpli·able

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1. pliable

   One who is docile is easily taught; one who is tractable is easily led; one who is pliant is easily bent in any direction; compliant represents one as inclined or persuaded to agreement with another's will. Compare DUTY.

   Synonyms:
   amenable, compliant, docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, pliant, submissive, tame, teachable, tractable, yielding

   Antonyms:
   determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful

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1. pliable

   Synonyms:
   flexible, supple, limber, like, ductile, yielding, manageable, facile, lithe, pliant

   Antonyms:
   stiff, stubborn, brittle, unbending, unyielding, unmanageable, inexorable

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1. fictile, pliableadjective

   susceptible to being led or directed

   "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"

   Synonyms:
   bendable, flexible, tractile, moldable, elastic, pliant, ductile, plastic, waxy, tensile, malleable, fictile

   Antonyms:
   unformed, insusceptible, inflexible, unsusceptible, unadaptable

2. ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractileadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   bendable, flexible, tractile, elastic, pliant, ductile, plastic, waxy, tensile, malleable, fictile

   Antonyms:
   unformed, unsusceptible, inflexible, unadaptable, insusceptible

3. elastic, flexible, pliable, pliantadjective

   able to adjust readily to different conditions

   "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"

   Synonyms:
   conciliatory, bendable, flexible, tractile, waxy, elastic, pliant, ductile, compromising, tensile, whippy, malleable, flexile, fictile, plastic

   Antonyms:
   insusceptible, unadaptable, unsusceptible, inflexible, unformed

4. bendable, pliable, pliant, waxyadjective

   capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking

   "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"

   Synonyms:
   impressionable, bendable, waxlike, flexible, tractile, waxen, elastic, impressible, pliant, ductile, plastic, waxy, tensile, malleable, fictile

   Antonyms:
   insusceptible, unsusceptible, inflexible, unformed, unadaptable

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1. pliableadjective

   Synonyms:
   flexible, flexile, pliant, supple, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bent

2. pliableadjective

   Synonyms:
   compliant, yielding, manageable, tractable, DOUGH-FACED, easily persuaded

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1. pliableadjective

   Synonyms:
   flexible, pliant, supple, limber, lithesome, lithe, flexile, malleable, irresolute, yielding, facile, compliant

   Antonyms:
   impliable, inflexible

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1. List of paraphrases for "pliable":

   flexible

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How to use pliable in a sentence?

1. unknown:

   Truth can not be manipulated in the slightest. It is the perception of truth that is pliable. To dismiss truth as a fairy tale is the endeavor of the fool.

2. Bette Davis:

   Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

3. Mark Twain:

   Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

4. Phil Keoghan:

   The idea is that you never finish the list, and the list is pliable, and you are constantly adding and subtracting.

5. Quentin Crisp:

   Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.