Synonyms: waxy, bendable, pliable, pliant
Definition: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
Usage: a flexible wire; a pliant young tree
Similar words: flexible, flexile
Definition: able to flex; able to bend easily
Usage: slim flexible birches
Synonyms: elastic, pliable, pliant, flexible
Definition: able to adjust readily to different conditions
Usage: an adaptable person; a flexible personality; an elastic clause in a contract
Similar words: adaptable
Definition: capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use
Usage: to succeed one must be adaptable; the frame was adaptable to cloth bolts of different widths
Synonyms: malleable, tractile, tensile, ductile, pliable, pliant
Definition: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
Usage: ductile copper; malleable metals such as gold; they soaked the leather to made it pliable; pliant molten glass; made of highly tensile steel alloy
Similar words: formed
Definition: having or given a form or shape
Definition: capable of being influenced or formed
Usage: the plastic minds of children; a pliant nature
Similar words: waxy, impressible, impressionable
Definition: easily impressed or influenced
Usage: an impressionable youngster; an impressionable age; a waxy mind