Definition of pliant

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Pliant (v.) Favorable to pliancy.

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Compliantly :: Compliantly (adv.) In a compliant manner.
Suppliant :: Suppliant (a.) Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.
Conformable :: Conformable (a.) Disposed to compliance or obedience; ready to follow direstions; submissive; compliant.
Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted..
Indulgent :: Indulgent (a.) Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent..
Submission :: Submission (n.) The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
Supple :: Supple (v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient..
Buxom :: Buxom (a.) Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture..
Lithesome :: Lithesome (a.) Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
Lash :: Lash (n.) A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes..
Pliant :: Pliant (v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart..
Wriggle :: Wriggle (a.) Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.
Consentingly :: Consentingly (adv.) With consent; in a compliant manner.
Supplicancy :: Suppliant (n.) One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
Chibouk :: Chibouk (n.) A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay..
Incompliance :: Incompliance (n.) The quality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy.
Supplement :: Supplely (adv.) In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.
Oily :: Oily (superl.) Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating.
Flexile :: Flexile (a.) Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.
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