Ductile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin: ductile metals.
  • adj. Easily molded or shaped. See Synonyms at malleable.
  • adj. Capable of being readily persuaded or influenced; tractable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
  • adj. Molded easily into a new form.
  • adj. Led easily; prone to follow.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction.
  • adj. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Susceptible of being led or drawn; tractable; complying; yielding to persuasion or instruction: as, the ductile mind of youth; a ductile people.
  • Flexible; pliable.
  • Capable of being drawn out into wire or threads: as, gold is the most ductile of the metals.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. easily influenced
  • adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  • Equivalent
    manipulable    tractable    formed   
    Antonym
    brittle   
    Cross Reference
    plastic    manageable    pliant   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tractable    complying    pliant    plastic    see    moldable    flexible    also   
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