[responsivevoice] malleable [/responsivevoice] [ mal-ee-uh-buhl ]
The word of the day is ‘malleable.’
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Pliable
2. Easily influenced
3. Soft
4. Ductile
1. Hindi – Lacheela
2. Spanish – Maleable
3. French – Malléable
4. Mandarin – Kě duàn
1. It is of a reddish colour, malleable, ductile, and tenacious.
2. They are as malleable and easily led as sheep.
3. They were poor things, but they were malleable in his hands.
4. Everything was getting too near the end to be malleable any more.
5. Watt was not made of malleable stuff, and, besides, he was tied to his mission.
adaptable, flexible, supple, workable, compliant, ductile, go-with-the-flow, governance, impressionable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, submissive, tractable, tractile, transformable, yielding, easily influenced, suggestible, susceptible, amenable, cooperative, pliable, accommodating, biddable, docile, obedient, complaisant, manageable, manipulable, persuadable, governable, influenceable etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
inflexible, rigid, stiff, unadaptable, firm, intractable
Quotation:
Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you’ve built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
Brian Greene
Social Example:
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