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Lissome vs Malleable - What's the difference?

lissome | malleable |

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

English

Alternative forms

* lissom

Adjective

(er)
  • lithe; quick and graceful in movement
  • * Tennyson
  • Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand.
  • * {{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.}}

    Synonyms

    *flexible, limber, lithe, supple English words suffixed with -some

    malleable

    English

    Adjective

    (en 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.
  • (metaphorical ) Flexible, liable to change.
  • My opinion on the subject is malleable .
  • (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
  • Coordinate terms

    * ductile

    References

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