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Pliable vs Bendsome - What's the difference?

pliable | bendsome |

As adjectives the difference between pliable and bendsome

is that pliable is soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded while bendsome is flexible; pliable.

pliable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded
    • You will find the clay perfectly pliable as long as it stays fairly moist.

    Synonyms

    * lithy

    Derived terms

    * pliableness * pliably

    Related terms

    * pliability * pliancy * pliant * ply

    External links

    * * * English words suffixed with -able ----

    bendsome

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare, or, archaic) Flexible; pliable.
  • * 1914 , Charlie Dunbar Broad, Perception, physics, and reality :
    • After all why should not our movement be a cause of their change of shape according to definite laws just as well as our squeezing them with our fingers if they chance to be made of some bendsome material ?