Pliable

What do we mean by pliable?

Easily bent or shaped. synonym: malleable. adjective

Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs. adjective

Easily influenced, persuaded, or controlled. adjective

Easy to be bent; readily yielding to force or pressure without rupture; flexible: as, willow is a pliable plant.

Flexible in disposition; easy to be bent, inclined, or persuaded; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline.

Synonyms Pliant, supple.

Compliant, yielding, tractable.

Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding. adjective

Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense. adjective

Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded adjective

Able to adjust readily to different conditions adjective

Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out adjective

Susceptible to being led or directed adjective

Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking adjective

Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded.

Easily persuaded; yielding to influence.

Words that are spelled similarly to pliable:
pliable, liable, pliably.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word pliable:
possessive, silicone, prefixes, adjective, molded, mold, prefix, woven, bent, elastic, yields, manipulated, weaving, rigid, possessed, pasha, plastic, bamboo, soft, bend, texture, transparent, leather, requiring, flexible, fabric, substance, skin, tough, shoes, wire, rubber, similarly, materials, shape, layer, tissue, clay, platinum, thin, grass, matrix, material, liquid, enough, thick, hard, solid, easy, hair, dry, shell, roots, easily, steel, body, grey, drawn, typically, surface, pieces, color, items, resistance, metal, parts, hand.

Words that rhyme with pliable:
viable, reliable, liable, friable, unreliable, undeniable, justifiable, verifiable, identifiable, triable, diable, unjustifiable, flyable, classifiable, dyeable, unverifiable, buyable.

Adjectives that are often used to describe pliable:
other, plausible, poor.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective pliable:
material, nature, leather, skin, materials, instrument, dough, tool, tissue, substance, branches, wire, wood, mass, plastic, clay, condition, body, disposition, state, metal, film, character, surface, tube, sheet, mind, rod, bark, rubber, stems, medium, bones, structure, twigs, form, texture, instruments, minds, membrane, stuff, fabric, tools, valve, wall, consistency, cartilage, rope, catheter, bodies, force, ones, person, tubes, wax, leaves, tubing, layer, sticks, leaflets, sheets, paper, temper, strips, strip, fibers, films, tissues, flap, piece, face, mood, hide, stick, figure, muscles, rods, matter, flesh, shoots, youth, creature, regime, valves, conscience, walls, poles, bone, scar, fabrics, objects.

Consonant match to pliable:
playable, plowable.

Words that sound like pliable:
pliable, playable, plowable, appliable, plausible, payable, placeable, placable, pleasable, buyable, flyable, alliable, playbill, penible, possible, liable, parable, posible, passable, potable, peaceable, peccable, posable, play ball, passible, pickable, packable, pubble, pourable, peelable, pacable, impliable, pliably, reliable, allowable, blamable, blameable, pebble, patible, preble, pribble, playing ball, pribyl, pine-apple, plural, palpable, pleasurable, applicable, palatable, bluebell, employable, pitiable, applaudable, blue bell, deployable, pleural, applausable, aplicable, unplayable, payables, pool table, poubelle, plagal, parabel, priceable, papable, bluebill, plantable, paisible, platel, patchable, poachable, probal, bannable, bubble, bible, bearable, beatable, bable, billable, bibl, biddable, blackball, bwl, buildable, borable, blue ball, bootable, bitable, beddable, black ball, black bile, bookable, blowball, beisbol, bailable, biteable, alible, battable, blue bull.