🧱 Able to be molded 🧠 Easily influenced

shapeable

3.7

A material that you can make into different shapes

adjective
/ˈʃeɪpəbl/

: moldable

This material is highly shapeable, making it ideal for custom designs in furniture.

Examples

The clay is shapeable, allowing the artist to create various forms.
With enough heat, the plastic becomes shapeable, letting you mold it into any desired form.
Tough searching; the brims are wired and shapeable.

Blog text (11)
Because glass is an amorphous solid, it has a molecular structure that's random like a liquid, making it transparent and shapeable when heated.

Synonyms

plastic

vsshapeable

38 3.6

Easy to shape when soft, for example clay

is more general and does not stress the physical force needed

pliable

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8 4.2

Easy to bend or shape

focuses on physical forming ability rather than adaptability in situations

pliant

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3 5.6

Easily bent or shaped without breaking

is the general idea of being able to be formed, not mainly about flexibility

bendy

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2 2.5

Easy to move into new shapes

describes forming into a particular shape rather than casual flexibility

bendable

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1 3.0

Can curve without breaking

is about making a definite molded shape rather than simple bending

moldable

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1 4.1

You can shape materials like clay when they are soft

is broader, not limited to being worked while soft

deformable

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Specialized

1 5.3

Able to be bent or shaped without breaking

involves intentional forming into a specific shape rather than mere change

formable

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4.4

Can be shaped or molded into a new form

is the same meaning but uses a different word form

castable

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Specialized

6.6

Able to be shaped by pouring liquid into a mold

is broader and applies to forming by any method, not only casting

thermoformable

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Specialized

7.5

You can shape it by heating, like some plastics

is the general ability independent of needing heat to shape

twistable

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3.4

Can bend or turn without breaking

refers to molding into a set shape rather than only twisting motion

Antonyms

rigid

35 4.0

Does not bend because it is stiff

fixed

1.8

Stays the same and cannot be changed

How Malleable

malleable

Specialized

3 6.0

shapeable

3.7

pliable

8 4.2

flexible

31 3.4

rigid

35 4.0

Surface Forms

shapeable positive

Morphology

shapeable = shape (transparent) = shape + able

Formed by straightforward suffixation of the verb 'shape' with '-able', meaning 'able to be shaped'.

Etymology

Shapeable is built from shape and the ending -able, where shape means 'form' and -able means 'can be'. So shapeable describes something you can make into a particular form, like clay or soft metal.