About The Word Malleable

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Malleable

Malleable Meaning & Definition
Malleable Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Malleable?

[adj] capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
[adj] easily influenced

Synonyms | Synonyms for Malleable: ductile | elastic | pliable | pliant | tensile | tractable | tractile

Related Terms | Find terms related to Malleable: able to adapt | accessible | acquiescent | adaptable | adaptive | adjustable | alterable | alterative | amenable | apt | bendable | bending | biddable | bright | changeable | checkered | clever | complaisant | compliant | conformable | convenient | docile | ductile | educable | elastic | ever-changing | extensible | extensile | fabricable | facile | feasible | fictile | flexible | flexile | flexuous | fluid | foolproof | formable | formative | giving | governable | handy | impermanent | impressible | impressionable | influenceable | instructable | intelligent | kaleidoscopic | like putty | limber | lissome | lithe | lithesome | manageable | maneuverable | many-sided | metamorphic | mobile | modifiable | moldable | motivated | movable | mutable | nonuniform | obedient | open | open-minded | other-directed | permutable | persuadable | persuasible | pervious | plastic | pliable | pliant | practical | protean | proteiform | quick | ready | receptive | resilient | responsive | ripe for instruction | rubbery | schoolable | sensitive | sequacious | shapable | springy | suasible | submissive | suggestible | supple | susceptible | swayable | teachable | thirsty for knowledge | tractable | tractile | trainable | transformable | transient | transitory | untroublesome | variable | weak | whippy | wieldable | wieldy | willing | willowy | yielding

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Malleable In Webster's Dictionary

\Mal"le*a*ble\, a. [F. mall['e]able, fr. LL. malleare to hammer. See {Malleate}.] Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. {Malleable iron}, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under {Iron}. {Malleable iron castings}, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

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