able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant
If something is pliable, you can bend it easily without cracking or breaking it. As your baby grows bigger, his bones become less pliable rigid
capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth