Supple vs Ductile - What's the difference?
supple | ductile |
pliant, flexible, easy to bend
lithe and agile when moving and bending
compliant; yielding to the will of others
* John Locke
To make or become supple.
* Dryden
* Spenser
To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
* John Locke
* Barrow
Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
Molded easily into a new form.
(rare) Led easily; prone to follow.
As adjectives the difference between supple and ductile
is that supple is pliant, flexible, easy to bend while ductile is capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.As a verb supple
is to make or become supple.supple
English
Adjective
(er)- supple''' joints; '''supple fingers
- a supple horse
- If punishment makes not the will supple , it hardens the offender.
Verb
- The stones suppled into softness as they fell.
- The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.
- a mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will
- They should supple our stiff willfulness.
