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pliable
(encz) | pliable,ohebný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
pliable
(encz) | pliable,ochotný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Pliable
(gcide) | Pliable \Pli"a*ble\, a. [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.
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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.
[1913 Webster] -- Pli"a*ble*ness, n. -- Pli"a*bly,
adv.
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pliable
(wn) | pliable
adj 1: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of
people ripe for propaganda" [syn: fictile, pliable]
2: 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" [syn: ductile, malleable,
pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
3: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable
person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a
contract" [syn: elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant]
4: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
"a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" [syn: bendable,
pliable, pliant, waxy] |
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Appliable
(gcide) | Appliable \Ap*pli"a*ble\, a. [See Apply.]
Applicable; also, compliant. [Obs.] --Howell.
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Compliable
(gcide) | Compliable \Com*pli"a*ble\, a.
Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant.
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Another compliable mind. --Milton.
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The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and
accommodated to their passions. --Jortin.
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Impliable
(gcide) | Impliable \Im*pli"a*ble\, a.
Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.
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Incompliable
(gcide) | Incompliable \In`com*pli"a*ble\, a.
Not compliable; not conformable.
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Multipliable
(gcide) | Multipliable \Mul"ti*pli`a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. multipliable.]
Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n.
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Multipliableness
(gcide) | Multipliable \Mul"ti*pli`a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. multipliable.]
Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n.
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Pliable
(gcide) | Pliable \Pli"a*ble\, a. [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.
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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.
[1913 Webster] -- Pli"a*ble*ness, n. -- Pli"a*bly,
adv.
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Pliableness
(gcide) | Pliable \Pli"a*ble\, a. [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.
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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.
[1913 Webster] -- Pli"a*ble*ness, n. -- Pli"a*bly,
adv.
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Unappliable
(gcide) | Unappliable \Un`ap*pli"a*ble\, a.
Inapplicable. --Milton.
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Unpliable
(gcide) | Unpliable \Unpliable\
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