| 单词 | pliant |
| 释义 | pliant (once / 3652 pages) adj The adjective pliant describes something that is capable of being bent. "The teenager showed off her pliant spine every time she draped herself over a piece of furniture. Why hanging upside down off the sofa didn't give her a headache, her mother would never know." Pliant has both a literal and a figurative meaning. Pliant can describe something that is bendable — like a spine, a tree branch, a bendy straw — or it can describe something that is flexible, but less tangible. In this latter sense, pliant describes something that adjusts to conditions or is easily influenced: "In order to survive the recession, the company had to be pliant and adjust to the new economic conditions." WORD FAMILYpliant: pliancy, pliantly, pliantness+/pliancy: pliancies USAGE EXAMPLESRussia’s cyber activity seeks to confuse, destabilize and ultimately bring to power foreign governments pliant to Russia’s aims. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) He said Russia cannot grow with a “weak government and a pliant regime directed from outside”. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) Luxuriously pliant but restrictive nonetheless, they functioned as armature, shielding Jackie from a rapacious public and, at the same time, defining her. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1adj capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out pliant molten glass Syn ductile, malleable, pliable, tensile, tractile formed having or given a form or shape 2adj capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking a pliant young tree Syn bendable, pliable, waxy flexible, flexile able to flex; able to bend easily 3adj able to adjust readily to different conditions Syn elastic, flexible, pliable adaptable capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use 4adj capable of being influenced or formed a pliant nature Syn plastic impressible, impressionable, waxy easily impressed or influenced |
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