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YIELDING |
Pliant |
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LITHE |
Pliant |
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SUPPLE |
Pliant |
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WICKER |
Pliant plant material |
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RIGID |
Not pliant or flexible |
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WILLOW |
Tree with pliant branches |
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WRIGGLE |
Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible. |
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CHEVERIL |
Made of cheveril; pliant. |
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COMPLIANT |
Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. |
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LIMBER |
Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. |
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SEQUACIOUS |
Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable. |
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LITHESOME |
Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom. |
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LITHELY |
In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner. |
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FLEXILE |
Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic;
tractable. |
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VIMINEOUS |
Of or pertaining to twigs; made of pliant twigs. |
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WILLOWY |
Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping;
graceful. |
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WEAK |
Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a
plant. |
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FACILE |
Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
fault; pliant; flexible. |
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PLIANCY |
The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the
pliancy of a rod. |
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STIFFEN |
To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to
stiffen cloth with starch. |
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LASH |
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the
culprit received thirty-nine lashes. |
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STIFF |
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or
flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints. |
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PLIABLE |
Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent;
flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable
plant. |
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HOOP |
A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and
united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs,
etc. |
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SHAMMY |
A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin
of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat,
kid, deer, and calf. See Shamoying. |