malleable

adj.

1. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure: a malleable metal.
2. Easily controlled or influenced; tractable.
3. Able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable: the malleable mind of the pragmatist.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin malleābilis, from malleāre, to hammer, from Latin malleus, hammer.]

malleability mal'le·a·bil'i·ty or mal'le·a·ble·ness n.
malleably mal'le·a·bly adv.

SYNONYMS   malleable, ductile, plastic, pliable, pliant. These adjectives mean capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out: malleable metals such as gold and silver; ductile copper; a plastic substance such as wax; soaked the leather to make it pliable; pliant molten glass.

adjective

1. Capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out, as by hammering or pressure: ductile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, supple, workable. See flexible/rigid.
2. Easily altered or influenced: ductile, elastic, flexible, flexile, impressionable, plastic, pliable, pliant, suggestible, supple. See flexible/rigid.
3. Capable of adapting or being adapted: adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant, supple. See change/persist.

adj

Definition: pliable
Antonyms: firm, rigid, stiff

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Susceptible of being beaten out into a thin plate.

• m. retractor — a flat elongated piece of metal shaped like a tongue depressor, which can be bent into a desired shape and used as a retractor for soft tissue. See ribbon malleable retractor.

Can be flattened out by pounding, a characteristic of the native metals and of the metals freed from ores in blowpipe testing.

IN BRIEF: Flexible. Also: Capable of being shaped.

Lead is quite a malleable metal and can be easily pounded flat.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - letbearbejdelig, medgørlig, føjelig

Nederlands (Dutch)
hamerbaar, plooi-/ vormbaar

Français (French)
adj. - malléable

Deutsch (German)
adj. - formbar

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ελάσιμος, σφυρηλατήσιμος, εύπλαστος, μαλακός, διαμορφώσιμος

Italiano (Italian)
malleabile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - maleável

Русский (Russian)
ковкий, податливый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - maleable, flexible, adaptable, dócil

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - smidbar, foglig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
有延展性的, 可锻的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 有延展性的, 可鍛的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 버릴 수 있는, 유순한, 적응성 있는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 鍛えられる, 柔順な, 従順な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) طيع, مطواع, قابل للطرق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮ניתן לעיצוב, סגיל, חשיל, ניתן לאילוף‬

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