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malleable
What does malleable mean?
malleable (adjective): able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use malleable in a sentence?
- Malleable metals such as gold. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce malleable?
/ˈmæliəbəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does malleable come from?
From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to malleable
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “malleable” mean?
able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers
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of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance
Not quite: that's what flowery means.
jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence
Not quite: that's what desultory means.
chiefly of a person's expression: suggesting (slight) confusion or puzzlement, especially in an amused manner; curious, questioning
Not quite: that's what quizzical means.
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