Thesaurus: ductile

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1. a. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
2. a. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
3. adj. easily influenced
4. adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
5. 1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals. Dryden. -- Duc"tile*ly, adv. -- Duc"tile*ness, n.
6. j:100 s. easily influenced s. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out