adjective
- Susceptible to being led or directed.
- usage: "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
- synonyms: fictile
- Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out.
- usage: "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
- Able to adjust readily to different conditions.
- usage: "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
- Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
- usage: "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
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