pliable

From Middle French, from Old French ploiable, from ploiier (“to fold”). By surface analysis, ply +‎ -able. Compare pliant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaɪəbəl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪəbəl

pliable (comparative more pliable, superlative most pliable)

1. Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded.

   You will find the clay perfectly pliable as long as it stays moist.

2. Easily persuaded; yielding to influence.

• (soft, flexible): lithy

• pliability
• pliancy
• pliant
• ply

• “pliable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pliable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pliable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From plier +‎ -able.

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pliable (plural pliables)

1. pliable

• “pliable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012