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able to bend easily without breaking a pliant branch bent low with the weight of ripe fruit Synonyms bendy [chiefly British], flexible, limber, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, pliable, willowy, suppleRelated Words adaptable, ductile, elastic, fluid, kneadable, malleable, modifiable, plastic, variable, yielding; droopy, flaccid, floppy, limp; semiflexibleNear Antonyms inelastic, nonmalleable, unyielding; breakable, brittle, fragileAntonyms inflexible, rigid, stiff, stiffened
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