Synonyms for malleable
ˈmæl i ə bəlmal·leable

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1. ductile, malleableadjective

   easily influenced

   Synonyms:
   tractile, pliant, tensile, pliable, ductile

   Antonyms:
   unformed, intractable

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, fictile, pliable

   Antonyms:
   intractable, unformed

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1. List of paraphrases for "malleable":

   bendy, amorphous

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1. Laura Bachrach:

   The horse may have been a little bit out of the barn here in terms of what they’re looking at, girls tend to mature earlier . . . the girls were even more fixed in their position in the skeletal world by the time they started, whereas the boys were perhaps a little more malleable.

2. Matt Weiner:

   I feel very lucky that I was exposed to people who were super-opinionated and had different points of view, and I am very malleable, despite whatever my reputation is, to new ideas, and I always felt that the best part of this job…was that someone would think of something and if it was outrageous or ridiculous or risky or something like that, we would do it. And I’m proud of that.

3. Pamela Romanowsky:

   The way we tell our story makes us who we are, memory is very unreliable, malleable and changes a lot.

4. Parker Singleton:

   When you’re a child your brain is very malleable, you don’t have all of these models for your whole life yet, you’re more able to continuously update your beliefs. at some point those models harden, and they become more difficult to shape. Under psychedelics we open up a new window to do that.

5. Paul Callan:

   Proving sex abuse and rape cases from decades ago is generally an extraordinarily difficult task, proof in cases where children are involved are even more difficult. Memories of children are often unreliable and malleable.