pliable

From Middle French, from Old French ploiable, from ploiier (“to fold”).

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• Rhymes: -aɪəbəl

pliable (comparative more pliable, superlative most pliable)

1. soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded

   You will find the clay perfectly pliable as long as it stays moist.

2. Easily persuaded; yielding to influence.

• (soft, flexible): lithy

• pliableness
• pliably

• pliability
• pliancy
• pliant
• ply

• pliable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pliable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pliable at OneLook Dictionary Search

plier +‎ -able

pliable (plural pliables)

1. pliable

• “pliable” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).