What part of speech is pliable?

Pliable can be categorized as an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. pliable is an adjective.

Inflections

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more pliable
    most pliable
  • Positive: pliable 
  • Comparative: more pliable
  • Superlative: most pliable

What does pliable mean?

Definitions

Adjective

pliable - capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
pliable - able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
pliable - 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"
pliable - susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"

Examples of pliable

#   Sentence  
1. adj. They soaked the leather to made it pliable.
2. adj. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
3. adj. Whereas the junction is more stiff or rigid, the nexus is more pliable; it is, as it were, animate or articulated.
Sentence  
adj.
They soaked the leather to made it pliable.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
Whereas the junction is more stiff or rigid, the nexus is more pliable; it is, as it were, animate or articulated.

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