[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

malleable \mal"leable\, a. f. mall'eable, fr. ll. malleare
   to hammer. see malleate.
   1. capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a
      hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to
      metals.
      1913 webster

   2. capable of being influenced to behave as desired;
      tractable; -- used mostly of children.
      pjc

   malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of
      being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. see
      under iron.

   malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and
      made malleable by heating then for several days in the
      presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives
      the cast iron of some of its carbon.
      1913 webster
see also:
malleate malleable iron iron malleable iron castings 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

malleable
     adj 1: easily influenced syn: ductile
     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, pliable,
         pliant, tensile, tractile
see also:
ductile pliable pliant tensile tractile 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

114 moby thesaurus words for "malleable":
   able to adapt, accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive,
   adjustable, alterable, alterative, amenable, apt, bendable,
   bending, biddable, bright, changeable, checkered, clever,
   complaisant, compliant, conformable, convenient, docile, ductile,
   educable, elastic, ever-changing, extensible, extensile,
   fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous,
   fluid, foolproof, formable, formative, giving, governable, handy,
   impermanent, impressible, impressionable, influenceable,
   instructable, intelligent, kaleidoscopic, like putty, limber,
   lissome, lithe, lithesome, manageable, maneuverable, many-sided,
   metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moldable, motivated, movable,
   mutable, nonuniform, obedient, open, open-minded, other-directed,
   permutable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable,
   pliant, practical, protean, proteiform, quick, ready, receptive,
   resilient, responsive, ripe for instruction, rubbery, schoolable,
   sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, suasible, submissive,
   suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, teachable,
   thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable,
   transformable, transient, transitory, untroublesome, variable,
   weak, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willing, willowy, yielding

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