Malleable

Adjective

 * 1) Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
 * 2) (metaphorical) Flexible, liable to change.
 * My opinion on the subject is malleable.

Related terms

 * malleability
 * malleableness
 * malleably
 * malleate

Thesaurus
able to adapt, accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, alterable, alterative, amenable, apt, bendable, bending, biddable, bright, changeable, checkered, clever, complaisant, compliant, conformable, convenient, docile, ductile, educable, elastic, ever-changing, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, foolproof, formable, formative, giving, governable, handy, impermanent, impressible, impressionable, influenceable, instructable, intelligent, kaleidoscopic, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, manageable, maneuverable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moldable, motivated, movable, mutable, nonuniform, obedient, open, open-minded, other-directed, permutable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, protean, proteiform, quick, ready, receptive, resilient, responsive, ripe for instruction, rubbery, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, transformable, transient, transitory, untroublesome, variable, weak, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willing, willowy, yielding

Etymology
From malliable:, borrowed from  malleabilis:, derived from malleare:, from malleus:, from, an extended variant of.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"m{li@b@l/}}

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: hämmerbar, schmiedbar
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:, ,


 * Polish: kowalny, kujny
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: kujný, kujná , kujné
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * German: formbar, dehnbar
 * Italian:
 * Manx: so-lhoobagh, so-chummeydagh


 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: podatny
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,