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

pliable \pli"able\, a. f., fr. plier to bend, to fold. see
   ply, v.
   1. capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent;
      flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is
      a pliable plant.
      1913 webster

   2. flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence,
      arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
      persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable
      youth. "pliable she promised to be." --dr. h. more.
      1913 webster -- pli"ableness, n. -- pli"ably,
      adv.
      1913 webster
see also:
ply pli"ableness pli"ably 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pliable
     adj 1: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of
            people ripe for propaganda" syn: fictile
     2: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an
        adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic
        clause in a contract" syn: elastic, flexible, pliant
     3: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
        "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" syn: bendable,
         pliant
     4: 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, malleable,
         pliant, tensile, tractile
see also:
fictile elastic flexible pliant bendable ductile 
malleable tensile tractile 

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

126 moby thesaurus words for "pliable":
   abulic, accessible, adaptable, afraid, amenable, appliable,
   applicable, apt, bendable, bending, bendy, biddable, bright,
   clever, compliant, convenient, cowardly, creased, crimped, docile,
   dog-eared, doubled, ductile, educable, elastic, exploitable,
   extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, faint, fainthearted,
   feasible, feeble, feebleminded, fictile, flexible, flexile,
   flexuous, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, foolproof,
   formable, formative, frail, gathered, giving, handy, impressible,
   impressionable, infirm, influenceable, instructable, intelligent,
   invertebrate, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
   malleable, manageable, maneuverable, manipulable, manipulatable,
   moldable, motivated, movable, open, open-minded, operable,
   persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plaited, plastic, pleated,
   pliant, plicate, plicated, plicatile, practical, quick, quilled,
   ready, receptive, responsive, reusable, ripe for instruction,
   ruffled, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, spineless,
   springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible,
   swayable, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile,
   trainable, tucked, twilled, untroublesome, usable, utilizable,
   weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-willed, whippy, wieldable,
   wieldy, willing, willowy, workable, yielding

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