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

pliant \pli"ant\, a. f. pliant, p. pr. of plier to bend. see
   ply, v.
   1. capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or
      pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe;
      limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. also
      used figuratively: easily influenced for good or evil;
      tractable; as, a pliant heart.
      1913 webster

            the will was then ductile and pliant to right
            reason.                               --south.
      1913 webster

   2. favorable to pliancy. r. "a pliant hour." --shak. --
      pli"antly, adv. -- pli"antness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
ply pli"antly pli"antness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pliant
     adj 1: capable of being influenced or formed; "the plastic minds of
            children"; "a pliant nature" syn: plastic
     2: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an
        adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic
        clause in a contract" syn: elastic, flexible, pliable
     3: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
        "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" syn: bendable,
         pliable
     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,
         pliable, tensile, tractile
see also:
plastic elastic flexible pliable bendable ductile 
malleable tensile tractile 

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

112 moby thesaurus words for "pliant":
   accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable,
   agreeable, alacritous, amenable, ardent, bendable, bending,
   biddable, complaisant, compliant, conformable, consenting, content,
   convenient, cooperative, disposed, docile, ductile, eager, elastic,
   enthusiastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fain,
   favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, feasible,
   fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, foolproof, formable,
   formative, forward, game, giving, handy, impressible,
   impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, influenceable,
   like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable,
   manageable, maneuverable, minded, moldable, movable, obedient,
   open, open-minded, other-directed, persuadable, persuasible,
   pervious, plastic, pliable, practical, predisposed, prompt, prone,
   quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, sensitive,
   sequacious, shapable, spongy, springy, suasible, submissive,
   suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, tractable, tractile,
   unaustere, undemanding, unexacting, unharsh, unsevere, unstrict,
   untroublesome, weak, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy,
   wieldable, wieldy, willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy,
   yielding, zealous

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