Ductile

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ductile
    adj 1: easily influenced [syn: {ductile}, {malleable}]
    2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile
       copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the
       leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of
       highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: {ductile}, {malleable},
       {pliable}, {pliant}, {tensile}, {tractile}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F.
   ductile. See {Duct}.]
   1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives,
      persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
      --Addison.
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            Forms their ductile minds
            To human virtues.                     --Philips.
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   2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
      threads.
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            Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
            metals.                               --Dryden.
      -- {Duc"tile*ly}, adv. -- {Duc"tile*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "ductile":
      adaptable, bendable, bending, biddable, compliant, convenient,
      docile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile,
      feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, foolproof,
      formable, formative, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable,
      like putty, limber, liquid, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable,
      manageable, maneuverable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant,
      practical, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable,
      springy, submissive, submitting, supple, susceptible, tractable,
      tractile, untroublesome, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy,
      yielding

    

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