ductile Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite easily influenced
    malleable.
  2. adjective satellite capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
    pliable; malleable; tensile; pliant; tractile.
    • ductile copper
    • malleable metals such as gold
    • they soaked the leather to made it pliable
    • pliant molten glass
    • made of highly tensile steel alloy

WordNet

Duc"tile adjective
Etymology
L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile. See Duct.
Definitions
  1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison.
    Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips.
  2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
    Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals. Dryden.
    -- Duc"tile*ly adv. -- Duc"tile*ness, n.

Webster 1913