ductile
Drawn into wire
Ductile describes materials that can be stretched, drawn out, or shaped without breaking.
Metals like gold and copper are highly ductile—they can be pulled into thin wires or hammered into sheets.
The term appears mostly in technical contexts: ductile iron, ductile fracture.
Figuratively, ductile can mean easily influenced or malleable: a ductile young mind.
Able to curve
- pliantEasily bent or influenced
- suppleFlexing without damage
- yieldingBending under pressure
- pliableCapable of bending easily
elastic · soft · workable · moldable · extensible · stretchable · deformable · limber
Reddish-brown metallic element
- goldElement seventy-nine
- silverLustrous white precious metal
- aluminumElement thirteen
- platinumDense precious silvery metal
palladium · tin · lead · zinc · nickel · bronze · brass · alloy
Able to adjust readily
- accommodatingWilling to help others
- compliantYielding to others' wishes
- amenableWilling to comply
- receptiveOpen to input
open-minded · persuadable · impressionable · tractable · yielding · flexible · responsive · teachable
bendable
Able to curve
pliable · elastic · soft · workable · moldable · extensible · stretchable · deformable · limber · springy
copper
Reddish-brown metallic element
platinum · palladium · tin · lead · zinc · nickel · bronze · brass · alloy · wire
adaptable
Able to adjust readily
- accommodatingWilling to help others
- compliantYielding to others' wishes
- amenableWilling to comply
receptive · open-minded · persuadable · impressionable · tractable · yielding · flexible · responsive · teachable · biddable
hammering
Striking repeatedly with force
- forgingShaping heated metal; faking documents
- shapingGiving something its form
- bendingCurving from straight
stretching · drawing · annealing · tempering · rolling · extrusion · swaging · spinning · workability · plasticity
- engineeringengineers, civil engineering, engineering, electrical engineering, blueprint
- flexible thingspliant, elastic, bendy, stretchy, springy
- blacksmithinganvil, anvils, forge, forges, bellows
- metal propertiesmalleable, magnetic, brittle, tough, tensile
- elastic thingsrubber, elastic, spandex, elastic band, latex
- flexibilitystretch, elastic, bendy, stretchy, bendable
ductileinflexible
Unable to bend
unyielding · intractable · intransigent · stubborn · obstinate
reduction, production, deduction, introduction, induction, seduction, ductility, conductive