pliable

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• /ˈplaɪəbəl/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -aɪəbəl
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: P L AY1 AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From Middle French, from Old French ploiable, from ploiier (“to fold”). By surface analysis, ply + -able. Compare pliant.

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: yapığan — easily bent or formed
• Azerbaijani: əyilgən — easily bent or formed
• Bulgarian: пластичен (plastičen) — easily bent or formed
• Bulgarian: ковък (kovǎk) — easily bent or formed
• Chinese Mandarin: 易彎 /易弯 (yìwān) — easily bent or formed
• Chinese Mandarin: 易曲折的 (yì qūzhé de) — easily bent or formed
• Dutch: plooibaar — easily bent or formed
• Finnish: taipuisa — easily bent or formed
• Finnish: notkea — easily bent or formed
• French: pliable — easily bent or formed
• French: pliant — easily bent or formed
• German: biegsam — easily bent or formed
• German: geschmeidig — easily bent or formed
• Greek: εύκαμπτος (éfkamptos) — easily bent or formed
• Greek: εύπλαστος (éfplastos) — easily bent or formed
• Greek: ευλύγιστος (evlýgistos) — easily bent or formed
• Italian: malleabile — easily bent or formed
• Italian: pieghevole — easily bent or formed
• Italian: flessibile — easily bent or formed
• Italian: adattabile — easily bent or formed
• Italian: modellabile — easily bent or formed
• Japanese: 曲げやすい (mageyasui) — easily bent or formed
• Japanese: しなやかな (shinayaka na) — easily bent or formed
• Korean: 유연(柔軟)한 (yuyeonhan) — easily bent or formed
• Latin: flexilis — easily bent or formed
• Manx: so-lhoobagh — easily bent or formed
• Māori: kōpēpē — easily bent or formed
• Māori: kōngohe — easily bent or formed
• Māori: kōpē — easily bent or formed
• Polish: giętki — easily bent or formed
• Polish: gibki — easily bent or formed
• Portuguese: maleável — easily bent or formed
• Portuguese: moldável — easily bent or formed
• Portuguese: flexível — easily bent or formed
• Romanian: pliabil — easily bent or formed
• Romanian: pliant — easily bent or formed
• Russian: ги́бкий (gíbkij) — easily bent or formed
• Serbo-Croatian: savitljiv — easily bent or formed
• Serbo-Croatian: савитљив — easily bent or formed
• Sicilian: ncunucchiàvili — easily bent or formed
• Sicilian: gnutticàvili — easily bent or formed
• Slovak: ohybný — easily bent or formed
• Slovak: tvárny — easily bent or formed
• Slovak: poddajný — easily bent or formed
• Spanish: plegable — easily bent or formed
• Spanish: plegadizo — easily bent or formed
• Tocharian B: wlaṃśke — easily bent or formed
• Ukrainian: гнучки́й (hnučkýj) — easily bent or formed