malleable
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6.0
- adjective
- /ˈmæl.i.ə.bəl/
- Specialized
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maleable
- Patients appear to be quite receptive to the malleable ear dressing because it is lightweight, thin, comfortable, and tolerable in appearance.
- malleable ear
- malleable dressing
And then to get that neon shape, because it's not very malleable here, then you can tell that the corners are kind of ragged.
- And then to get that neon shape, because it's not very malleable here, then you can tell that the corners are kind of ragged.
- I want to be the best, so I have to make you malleable to stay number one and to stay in control when I can make you more malleable by dismantling your confidence.
- This is why kids are so, you know, pliable and malleable because they they haven't got time with conditioning, fighting against them just yet.
- Hence why Flint corn makes a really good kind of binder or malleable, moldable dough that you can turn into tortillas or whatever.
- But they're people of, of varied interests and, and many different passions who, who develop that capacity early to be malleable and flexible to have that wiggle room.
- The signature itself may be malleable and in Bitcoin it is.
- It's, it's completely malleable until it gets shipped to the studio.
- Take this malleable cookie cutter and this glitter packet.
Examples
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All 20 patients preferred the malleable ear dressing to a traditional Band-Aid.
Academic text (2003) -
These people developed the ability to turn hard ore into malleable liquid metals.
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And we put it through and we get a much more malleable end product.
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- It's amazing how malleable this is.
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That was a cheap malleable metal that was very easy to use for this purpose.
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In its liquid form, it is so rich in ore and so malleable that it can produce the strongest bricks and tiles.
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The water tubes are made out of copper, which is a very malleable metal, and then the tanks are made of brass, which is a little less malleable.
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Mesud took the broken toy soldier from the coffee table and crushed it into a deformed clump of warm, malleable tin.
Fiction book (1999) -
Heating certain green stones (malachite) or blue stones (azurite) produced shiny beads of copper, a malleable metal that could be melted and shaped into weapons, tools, and jewelry.
Academic text (2011) -
The dough should be soft, malleable, and slightly sticky.
Synonyms
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5.5
Easily changed or influenced, like a child's mind
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5.6
Easily bent or shaped without breaking
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4.1
You can shape materials like clay when they are soft
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5.1
Can be changed to fit new needs
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5.3
Able to be bent or shaped without breaking
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7.3
Can be stretched into a thin wire without breaking
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7.4
Easy to change, control, or shape
Easy for someone to change or control
Something other people can easily change
Antonyms
How Malleable
Surface Forms
Morphology
malleable = malle (semi-transparent) = malle + able
The suffix '-able' makes the physical meaning ('able to be shaped') reasonably inferable, but the root is an uncommon combining form rather than a familiar English base.
Etymology
Malleable comes from the Latin malleus meaning 'hammer'. It describes materials like gold that a hammer can hit and bend without breaking, so something malleable is 'able to be shaped'.