From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ductile \Duc"tile\, adjective [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile. See {Duct}.]
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}, adverb -- {Duc"tile*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: easily influenced [syn: {malleable}]
2: 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" [syn: {malleable}, {pliable}, {pliant}, {tensile}, {tractile}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "ductile": adaptable, bendable, bending, biddable, compliant, convenient, docile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, foolproof, formable, formative, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable, like putty, limber, liquid, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, submissive, submitting, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, untroublesome, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy, yielding
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