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Ductile   Listen
adjective
Ductile  adj.  
1.
Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. "Forms their ductile minds To human virtues."
2.
Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. "Gold... is the softest and most ductile of all metals."





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"Ductile" Quotes from Famous Books



... Countess was marble, but to Lesbia she was wax. Lesbia could mould her as she pleased; but happily Lesbia was not the kind of young person to take advantage of this privilege; she was thoroughly ductile or docile, and had no desire, at present, which ran ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon


Words linked to "Ductile" :   malleable, pliable, formed, tractable


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