pliant

«pliant» in Mova's school dictionary: bendy and easy to bend or shape without breaking — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (pliant; more pliant, most pliant)

meaning for a pupil

Pliant means bendy and easy to bend or shape without breaking. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories willow and rushes are pliant, so they can be woven into a net; a pliant person is easy to persuade

examples

• They wove a net with the pliant willow. tree →
• Young twigs are pliant, but old wood is stiff. tree →
• She has a pliant mind and learns quickly. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pliant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.