MALLEABLE

ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile

(adjective) 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”

ductile, malleable

(adjective) easily influenced

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)

Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.

(metaphorical) Flexible, liable to change.

(cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Coordinate terms

• ductile

Source: Wiktionary

Mal"le*a*ble, a. Etym: [F. malléable, fr. LL. malleare to hammer. See Malleate.]

Definition: Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron.

– Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition