pliantadjective
uk/ˈplaɪ.ənt/us/ˈplaɪ.ənt/pliant adjective (PERSON)
Pliant people are easily influenced or controlled by other people:
I don't think it's a good thing for children to be too pliant.
being able and willing to accept change or new ideas:
The management has adopted a more pliant position, and has agreed to listen to the staff's requests.
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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Adapting and modifying
pliant adjective (SUBSTANCE)
able to bend easily without breaking:
These toys are made of pliant rubber, so they won't break.
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Flexible, loose and yielding
- adrift
- bendable
- bendy
- ductile
- elastic
- flowing
- jointed
- loose
- loose-fitting
- loosely
- looseness
- plastic
- spring
- springy
- sprung
- stretch
- stretchy
- supple
- tensile
- yield
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pliancy
noun [ U ] uk/ˈplaɪ.ən.si/us/ˈplaɪ.ən.si/
pliantly
adverb uk/ˈplaɪ.ənt.li/us/ˈplaɪ.ənt.li/