[syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F.
ductile. See Duct.]
1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives,
persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
--Addison.
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Forms their ductile minds
To human virtues. --Philips.
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2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
threads.
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Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
metals. --Dryden.
-- Duc"tile*ly, adv. -- Duc"tile*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ductile
adj 1: easily influenced [syn: ductile, malleable]
2: 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" [syn: ductile, malleable,
pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "ductile":
adaptable, bendable, bending, biddable, compliant, convenient,
docile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile,
feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, foolproof,
formable, formative, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable,
like putty, limber, liquid, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable,
manageable, maneuverable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant,
practical, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable,
springy, submissive, submitting, supple, susceptible, tractable,
tractile, untroublesome, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy,
yielding