Malleable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure: a malleable metal.
  • adj. Easily controlled or influenced; tractable.
  • adj. Able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable: the malleable mind of the pragmatist.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
  • adj. Flexible, liable to change.
  • adj. in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
  • adj. Capable of being influenced to behave as desired; tractable; -- used mostly of children.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of being shaped or extended by beating or rolling; capable of extension by hammering; reducible to a laminated form by beating, as gold, which may be beaten into leaves (gold-foil) of extreme thinness; hence, capable of being shaped by outside influence; yielding. See foil.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  • adj. easily influenced
  • Equivalent
    formed    manipulable    tractable   
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tractable    ductil   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pliant    extensible    impressible    resilient    brittle    customizable    porous    docile    friable    pulpy