pliant

Adjective

• capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
  • a flexible wire
    
  • a pliant young tree
    

• able to adjust readily to different conditions
  • an adaptable person
    
  • a flexible personality
    
  • an elastic clause in a contract
    

• 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
    

• capable of being influenced or formed
  • the plastic minds of children
    
  • a pliant nature
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bendable , pliable , waxy , elastic , flexible , ductile , malleable , tensile , tractile , plastic