Lissome vs Malleable - What's the difference?
lissome | malleable |
lithe; quick and graceful in movement
* Tennyson
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter XI
, passage=Well, let me tell you, Jeeves, and you can paste this in your hat, shapeliness isn't everything in this world. In fact, it sometimes seems to me that the more curved and lissome the members of the opposite sex, the more likely they are to set Hell's foundations quivering.}}
Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
(metaphorical ) Flexible, liable to change.
(cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
As adjectives the difference between lissome and malleable
is that lissome is lithe; quick and graceful in movement while malleable is malleable (able to be hammered into thin sheets).lissome
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Alternative forms
* lissomAdjective
(er)- Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand.
Synonyms
*flexible, limber, lithe, supple English words suffixed with -somemalleable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- My opinion on the subject is malleable .