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- pronunciation:
- plaI
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
easily flexed; supple.
Those green sticks are pliant, but the older wood is stiff.- synonyms:
- flexible, limber, lissome, lithe, malleable, pliable, soft, suggestible, supple
- antonyms:
- rigid
- similar words:
- amenable, biddable, complaisant, docile, ductile, elastic, flexible, impressionable, malleable, passive, plastic, pliable, resilient, submissive, tractable
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| definition 2: |
easily influenced; pliable.
- antonyms:
- obdurate, obstinate, rigid
- similar words:
- flexible, malleable, pliable, soft, suggestible
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| related words: |
amenable, complaisant, elastic, pliable, soft, supple, tractable |
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| derivations: |
pliantly (adv.), pliancy (n.), pliantness (n.) |
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