Ductile

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  • adjective. Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin.
  • adjective. Easily molded or shaped. synonym: malleable.
  • adjective. Capable of being readily persuaded or influenced; tractable.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Susceptible of being led or drawn; tractable; complying; yielding to persuasion or instruction: as, the ductile mind of youth; a ductile people.
  • Flexible; pliable.
  • Capable of being drawn out into wire or threads: as, gold is the most ductile of the metals.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction.
  • adjective. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
  • adjective. Molded easily into a new form.
  • adjective. Led easily; prone to follow.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. easily influenced
  • adjective. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
    • Word Usage
    ""That can actually trigger a phenomenon we know as ductile failure," Dr Fusseis said."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    brittle  
    cross-reference
    manageable  plastic  pliant  
    Equivalent
    formed  manipulable  tractable  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Regan  accumulate  ankylosis  casting  collagenous  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adaptable  also  bendable  bending  biddable  
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