Plastic

Noun

 * 1)  A sculptor, moulder.
 * 2)  Any solid but malleable substance.
 * 3) A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.
 * 4) Any similar synthetic material, not necessarily thermoplastic.
 * 5)  credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
 * 6)  A person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:moldable

Adjective

 * 1) Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
 * 2) * 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 103:
 * the rage [...] betook itself at last to certain missile weapons; which, though from their plastic nature they threatened neither the loss of life or of limb, were, however, sufficiently dreadful to a well-dressed lady.
 * 1) Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
 * 2)  Creative, formative.
 * 3)  Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
 * 4)  Producing tissue.
 * 5) Constructed of polymer.
 * 6) Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz.
 * 7)  Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.
 * 1)  Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.
 * 1)  Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.
 * 1)  Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.

Synonyms

 * malleable, flexible, pliant
 * ersatz
 * fake

Antonyms

 * elastic
 * genuine

Derived terms

 * plastician
 * plasticity
 * plasticizer
 * plasticine

Thesaurus
Bakelite, Buna, Celluloid, Formica, Lucite, Mylar, PVC, Perspex, Plexiglas, Styrofoam, Teflon, able to adapt, acaroid resins, accessible, accordant, acetate, acetate nitrate, acquiescent, acrylic, adaptable, adaptive, adhesive, adjustable, alkyd, alterable, alterative, amber, amenable, aminoplast, anal, apt, artificial, average, bendable, bending, biddable, bogus, bourgeois, bright, casein plastic, cast plastic, cellophane, cellulose acetate, cellulose ether, cellulose nitrate, cellulose plastic, cellulosic, changeable, cheap, checkered, chintzy, clayey, clever, colophony, common, commonplace, complaisant, compliant, compulsive, concordant, conformable, conformist, conventional, corresponding, coumarone resins, coumarone-indene, counterfeit, crummy, docile, ductile, educable, elastic, epoxy, ersatz, ever-changing, extensible, extensile, extruded plastic, fabricable, facile, fake, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, fluorocarbon plastic, formable, formal, formalistic, formational, formative, fossil resins, furane, garden, garden-variety, giving, gum rosin, gums, harmonious, imitation, impermanent, impressible, impressionable, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inexperienced, influenceable, instructable, intelligent, kaleidoscopic, kosher, lac resins, laminate, lignin, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lot, malleable, manageable, many-sided, melamine, meretricious, metabolic, metamorphic, middle-class, mobile, modifiable, moldable, molded plastic, molding compounds, morphotic, motivated, movable, multiresin, mutable, neoprene, nitrate, no great shakes, nonuniform, normal, nylon, obedient, open, open-minded, ordinary, orthodox, other-directed, parcel, paste, pedantic, permutable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, phenolic urea, pinchbeck, pine resins, plasmatic, plasmic, plat, pliable, pliant, plot, polyester, polymer, polymeric amide, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, precisianistic, protean, proteiform, protein plastic, protoplasmic, quick, ready, receptive, regular, resilient, resin, resin plastic, resina, resinate, resinoid, responsive, ripe for instruction, rosin, rubbery, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, sham, shapable, shapeable, shoddy, silicone resin, soft, springy, square, straight, stuffy, suasible, submissive, suburban, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, synthetic, synthetic fabric, synthetic resin, synthetic rubber, teachable, tetrafluoroethylene, thermoplastic, thermosetting plastic, thirsty for knowledge, tract, tractable, tractile, traditionalist, trainable, transient, transitory, unexceptional, unformed, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unspectacular, uptight, urea, urea formaldehyde, usual, variable, vegetable resins, vinyl, waxy, weak, whippy, willing, willowy, workable, yielding

Etymology
From plasticus:, from  πλαστικός:, from πλάσσειν:.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: պլաստմաս
 * Bengali: প্লাস্টিক
 * Catalan: plàstic
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 塑胶
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:, plastiek,
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 * Greek: πλαστικό
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: műanyag
 * Icelandic:
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, пластик
 * Spanish:
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 * Turkish:


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 * Hungarian: műanyag
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 * Finnish: muovi, maksukortti, luottokortti
 * German:


 * Icelandic:
 * Welsh: plastig

Adjective

 * Czech:
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 * Italian:
 * Russian: пластмассовый, пластиковый


 * Finnish: plastinen, mukautuva
 * German:
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 * Russian: гибкий
 * Spanish:


 * Bengali: প্লাস্টিক
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 * German: Plastik-
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:, de plástico

Noun

 * 1) plastic explosive

Etymology
From plastic:

Derived terms

 * plasticage
 * plastiquer