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词汇 pliant
释义 pliant
adjective
uk /ˈplaɪ.ənt/ us /ˈplaɪ.ənt/

pliantadjective (PERSON)


Pliant people are easily influenced or controlled by other people: (人)易受影响的,顺从的
I don't think it's a good thing for children to be too pliant.我认为孩子太听话了并不是件好事。
Synonyms
accommodating
acquiescentformal
amenable
complaisantformal
compliantformal
docile
malleable
obedient
being able and willing to accept change or new ideas: 善于变通的,能审时度势的,顺势应变的
The management has adopted a more pliant position, and has agreed to listen to the staff's requests.管理层采取了更灵活的立场,同意听取员工的要求。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Weakness and vulnerability
Achilles heel
asthenia
at a low ebbidiom
atonic
atony
fragile
fragility
frail
glass jaw
helpless
shakiness
shaky
sitting duck
sitting target
soft target
weakling
weakly
weakness
weedy
wetly

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Adapting and modifying

pliantadjective (SUBSTANCE)


able to bend easily without breaking: (物质)易弯的,柔韧的
These toys are made of pliant rubber, so they won't break.这些玩具由柔韧橡胶制成,所以不会被弄坏。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Flexible, loose and yielding
adrift
bendable
bendy
ductile
ductility
flowing
jointed
lax
limply
limpness
ragdoll
relax
rubbery
semi-flexible
slacken
uncompressed
unconstricted
unstayed
unstuck
yielding

Related words


pliancy
pliantly

Examples of pliant


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Backing their faction in the country a pliant government was soon in place.
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The pliant, sunny melodies and beautiful part-sung choirs link up seamlessly with the texts.
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The pliant historian and courtier could be counted on to provide refined touches to official correspondence.
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The flesh is thin but pliant, grayish or pallid, cartilaginous, and lacks any distinctive odor and taste.
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The nest walls are pliant and soft but strong.
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The elm's wood bends well and distorts easily making it quite pliant.
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When putting out force it must pass through, penetrate, pierce, connect, be pliant, ferocious, round, firm, have a shaking-cutting strength, and deliver explosive force.
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They are aided in climbing with their black, pliant footpads with numerous ridges.
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They have specialist teeth that can macerate leaves and break up tough but pliant unripe fruit and the seeds embedded in the flesh.
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Though his refined, intelligent, atonal songs require advanced musicianship, the natural declamation and pliant, expressive vocal lines make them gratifying to sing.
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Wu uses young elm trees, which he says are pliant and do not break easily.
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Administration retaliated by focusing on agitators within the heretofore self-selective service clubs, suspending the clubs and then reorganizing them later with a more pliant membership.
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House-elves are generally obedient, pliant, and obsequious; and when enslaved, wear discarded items like pillowcases and tea-towels.
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A leaf of a book is a semi-pliant mechanism.
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The flesh is pale brownish ochraceous to nearly white, thin and pliant, with an odor and taste varying from very slightly to strongly like flour (farinaceous).
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