Pliant vs Malleable - What's the difference?
pliant | malleable |
Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
(figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
* 2013 , A. J. Langguth, Patriots
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
Malleable is a synonym of pliant.
As adjectives the difference between pliant and malleable
is that pliant is capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax while malleable is able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.pliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "[The king] had a pliant prime minister and a general who was telling him what he wanted to hear."
Derived terms
* pliantnessAnagrams
* ----malleable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My opinion on the subject is malleable .
