adj. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
adj. Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable.
adj. Favorable to pliancy.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Capable of being easily bent; flexible; supple; limber; lithe: as, a pliant twig.
Easily bent or inclined to any particular course; readily influenced for good or evil; easy to be persuaded; yielding.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adj. able to adjust readily to different conditions
adj. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
adj. capable of being influenced or formed
adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
Word Usage
"Mann congratulated himself on having articulated the notion of pliant time in an early draft of his great novel, even before Einstein expanded the theory in 1916."