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单词 pliant
释义 pli·ant
\-nt\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English pliaunt, from Middle French pliant, present participle of plier to bend, ply
1. : yielding readily without breaking : bending or folding easily : flexible, workable, lithe
 < modeled in the pliant material and then … hardened — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
 < a girl … with a slim, pliant figure — Inez Karma & Gilbert Millstein >
2. : easily influenced : yielding
 < sees the … natives as a pliant mass — J.S.Redding >
 < had a pliant congressional majority — A.S.Link >
3. : suitable, apt
 < which I observing, took once a pliant hour — Shakespeare >
4. : lending itself to varied uses : adaptable
 < a pliant style >
 < the clarinet … a very fluent and pliant instrument — Winthrop Sargeant >
Synonyms: see plastic
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