Of a material: easily worked; soft and friable. Cf. free-working adj. (b) at compounds 2.

Esp. of metal: capable of being hammered or pressed out of shape without a tendency to return to the original shape or to fracture.

Easily folded, bent, or shaped; flexible, supple; ductile.

Of a substance or material: able to be worked, shaped, or manipulated; mouldable.

Capable of being hammered, or beaten out with a hammer; malleable.

Capable of being moulded.

Plastic, pliable. Also figurative. Obsolete.

Of a substance or material: soft, yielding, and easy to work or manipulate. Obsolete (English regional in later use).

Of a material: that can be (easily) moulded or shaped; pliant, pliable; that readily takes a new form.

That may be tempered or made plastic.

Physics. Capable of being moulded or deformed without breaking; = malleable, adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

Able to be manipulated; flexible, tractable.