bendable, pliable, pliant, waxy
(adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; “a flexible wire”; “a pliant young tree”
elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant
(adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions; “an adaptable person”; “a flexible personality”; “an elastic clause in a contract”
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”
fictile, pliable
(adjective) susceptible to being led or directed; “fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pliable (comparative more pliable, superlative most pliable)
Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded.
Easily persuaded; yielding to influence.
• (soft, flexible): lithy
Source: Wiktionary
Pli"a*ble, a. Etym: [F., fr. plier to bend, to fold. See Ply, v.]
1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth. "Pliable she promised to be." Dr. H. More.
– Pli"a*ble*ness, n.
– Pli"a*bly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
