pliable

pliable
    adj 1: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of
           people ripe for propaganda" [syn: {fictile}, {pliable}]
    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}]
    3: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable
       person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a
       contract" [syn: {elastic}, {flexible}, {pliable}, {pliant}]
    4: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
       "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" [syn: {bendable},
       {pliable}, {pliant}, {waxy}]
    

Pliable \Pli"a*ble\, a. [F., fr. plier to bend, to fold. See
   {Ply}, v.]
   1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent;
      flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is
      a pliable plant.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence,
      arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
      persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable
      youth. "Pliable she promised to be." --Dr. H. More.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Pli"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Pli"a*bly},
      adv.
      [1913 Webster]
    

126 Moby Thesaurus words for "pliable":
      abulic, accessible, adaptable, afraid, amenable, appliable,
      applicable, apt, bendable, bending, bendy, biddable, bright,
      clever, compliant, convenient, cowardly, creased, crimped, docile,
      dog-eared, doubled, ductile, educable, elastic, exploitable,
      extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, faint, fainthearted,
      feasible, feeble, feebleminded, fictile, flexible, flexile,
      flexuous, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, foolproof,
      formable, formative, frail, gathered, giving, handy, impressible,
      impressionable, infirm, influenceable, instructable, intelligent,
      invertebrate, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
      malleable, manageable, maneuverable, manipulable, manipulatable,
      moldable, motivated, movable, open, open-minded, operable,
      persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plaited, plastic, pleated,
      pliant, plicate, plicated, plicatile, practical, quick, quilled,
      ready, receptive, responsive, reusable, ripe for instruction,
      ruffled, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, spineless,
      springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible,
      swayable, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile,
      trainable, tucked, twilled, untroublesome, usable, utilizable,
      weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-willed, whippy, wieldable,
      wieldy, willing, willowy, workable, yielding