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- [1] : 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.
1913 webster
forms their ductile minds
to human virtues. --philips.
1913 webster
2. capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
threads.
1913 webster
gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
metals. --dryden.
-- duc"tilely, adv. -- duc"tileness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
duct duc"tilely duc"tileness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
ductile
adj 1: easily influenced syn: 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: malleable, pliable,
pliant, tensile, tractile
see also:
malleable pliable pliant tensile tractile
- [3] : 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
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