Pliant Definition

plīənt
adjective
Easily bent; pliable.
Webster's New World
Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable.
A pliant poetic form.
American Heritage
Adaptable or compliant.
Webster's New World
Yielding readily to influence or domination; compliant.
A pliant colonial regime.
American Heritage

(figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.

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Origin of Pliant

  • Middle English from Old French present participle of plier to fold, bend from Latin plicāre plek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French pliant.

    From Wiktionary

Pliant Sentence Examples

  • Its pliant and flexible branches are made into brooms; and in ancient Rome the fasces of the lictors, with which they cleared the way for the magistrates, were made up of birch rods.

  • The true love-birds (Agapornis) may also be said to build nests, for they line their nest-hole with strips of pliant bark.

  • The wood of the hazel is whitish-red, close in texture and pliant, and has when dry a weight of 49 lb per cub.

  • Pain radiated through his body from where she'd shot him, and his normally pliant temper was near the snapping point.

  • True strength lies in a fearless powerlessness, that is not assertive but is equally not pliant to another's will to domination.

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Words Starting With

PPLPLI

Words Ending With

TNTANT

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Words Starting With P and Ending With T

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With T