Ductile
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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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