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Definition of malleable :
Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; - applied to metals.
Synonyms:
tensile, fictile, flexile, moldable, workable, flexuous, adjustable, impressionable, waxy, tractile, suggestible, change, bendable, study at pliable, adaptive
elastic (part of speech: adjective)
limber, resilient, buoyant, supple, mutable, extensible, elastic, stretchy, lithe, springy
soft (part of speech: adjective)
willing (part of speech: adjective)
ductile, receptive, pliable, earnest, acquiescent, pliant, persuadable, eager, biddable, assenting, tractable, susceptible, ready, yielding, agreeable, compliant, flexible, cooperative, submissive, willing, tame, amenable, adaptable, plastic
fickle (part of speech: adjective)
impulsive, unreliable, changeable, inconstant, indecisive, flighty, volatile, fluctuating, undependable, modifiable, permutable, fickle
Usage examples:
- The abundance of gold in this important mining state is evinced by the fact that twenty- one of her thirty- three counties are producing that most desirable and malleable of all metals. - "By Water to the Columbian Exposition", Johanna S. Wisthaler.
- It's probably the softest and most malleable we have. - "Acid Bath", Vaseleos Garson.
- That material is not 'bronze, or a metal which resembles bronze', but is pure malleable iron, as proved by analysis. - "Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official", William Sleeman.