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pliant
adjective
1 pliant
Capable of being influenced or formed:
— A pliant nature.
synonym: plastic.
Roget 886:
servile,
obsequious;
supple,
supple as a glove;
soapy,
oily,
pliant,
cringing,
abased,
dough-faced,
fawning,
slavish,
groveling,
sniveling,
mealy-mouthed;
beggarly,
sycophantic,
parasitical;
abject,
prostrate,
down on ones marrowbones;
base,
mean,
sneaking;
crouching
etc.
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Roget 725:
surrendering
etc.
v.;
submissive,
resigned,
crouching;
downtrodden;
down on one's marrow bones;
on one's bended knee;
unresistant,
unresisting,
nonresisting;
pliant
etc.
(soft)
324;
undefended.
untenable,
indefensible;
humble
etc.
879.
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Roget 605:
irresolute,
infirm of purpose,
double-minded,
half-hearted;
undecided,
unresolved,
undetermined;
shilly-shally;
fidgety,
tremulous;
hesitating
etc.
v.;
off one's balance;
at a loss
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
vacillating
etc.
v.;
unsteady
etc.
(changeable)
149;
unsteadfast†,
fickle,
without ballast;
capricious
etc.
608;
volatile,
frothy;
light,
lightsome,
light-minded;
giddy;
fast and loose.
weak,
feeble-minded,
frail;
timid,
wimpish,
wimpy
etc.
860;
cowardly
etc.
862;
dough-faced [U.S.];
facile;
pliant
etc.
(soft)
324;
unable to say 'no',
easy-going revocable,
reversible.
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Roget 743:
obedient;
complying,
compliant;
loyal,
faithful,
devoted;
at one's call,
at one's command,
at one's orders,
at one's beck and call;
under beck and call,
under control.
restrainable;
resigned,
passive;
submissive
etc.
725;
henpecked;
pliant
etc.
(soft)
324.
unresisted†.
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2 pliant
Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out:
— Pliant molten glass.
synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, tensile, tractile.
Roget 705:
easy,
facile;
feasible
etc.
(practicable)
470;
easily managed,
easily accomplished;
within reach,
accessible,
easy of access,
for the million,
open to.
manageable,
wieldy;
towardly†,
tractable;
submissive;
yielding,
ductile;
suant†;
pliant
etc.
(soft)
324;
glib,
slippery;
smooth
etc.
255;
on friction wheels,
on velvet.
unembarrassed,
disburdened,
unburdened,
disencumbered,
unencumbered,
disembarrassed;
exonerated;
unloaded,
unobstructed,
untrammeled;
unrestrained
etc.
(free)
748;
at ease,
light.
[able to do easily]
at home with;
quite at home;
in one's element,
in smooth water;
skillful
etc.
698;
accustomed
etc.
613.
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Roget 324:
soft,
tender,
supple;
pliant,
pliable;
flexible,
flexile;
lithe,
lithesome;
lissom,
limber,
plastic;
ductile;
tractile†,
tractable;
malleable,
extensile,
sequacious†,
inelastic;
aluminous†;
remollient†.
yielding
etc.
v.;
flabby,
limp,
flimsy.
doughy,
spongy,
penetrable,
foamy,
cushiony†.
flaccid,
flocculent,
downy;
edematous,
oedematous†,
medullary [Anat.],
argillaceous,
mellow.
soft as butter,
soft as down,
soft as silk;
yielding as wax,
tender as chicken.
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Polish: kujny, kowalny
3 pliant
4 pliant
Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking:
— A pliant young tree.
synonyms: bendable, pliable, waxy.
Moby thesaurus: accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, ardent, bendable, bending, biddable, complaisant, compliant, conformable, consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, disposed, docile, ductile, eager, elastic, enthusiastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, foolproof, formable, formative, forward, game, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, influenceable, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, minded, moldable, movable, obedient, open, open-minded, other-directed, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, practical, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, spongy, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, tractable, tractile, unaustere, undemanding, unexacting, unharsh, unsevere, unstrict, untroublesome, weak, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous ... show more.
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