Synonyms for ductile
- adjective
Most common
Definitions
- adj. 1
Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
Gold is highly ductile, allowing it to be drawn into very fine wires.
- adj. 2
Molded easily into a new form.
Related words
- Word family
- ductileness ductility duct
Example sentences
- plastic Paper, glass and plastic are recyclable materials.
- malleable The material is also malleable at low temperatures.
- pliable Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
- pliant We need fewer pliant journalists, not more.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| ductile | falling | |
| plastic | steady | |
| malleable | steady | |
| pliable | steady | |
| pliant | rising | |
| suggestible | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- docile2, supple2, facile2, pliant2
- 7 letters
- plastic2, elastic3, tensile2, pliable3, fictile
- 8 letters
- flexible3, yielding2, moldable3, biddable3, tractile
- 9 letters
- compliant3, malleable4, tractable3, extensile
- 10 letters
- extensible, sequacious
- 11 letters
- suggestible4
- 13 letters
- influenceable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (docile2 = 2 syllables).