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synonyms for ductile

  • adaptable
  • amenable
  • biddable
  • docile
  • extensile
  • malleable
  • manageable
  • moldable
  • plastic
  • pliable
  • responsive
  • submitting
  • supple
  • tractable
  • yielding
See also synonyms for: ductileness / ductility
On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ductile, such as: adaptable, amenable, biddable, docile, extensile, and malleable.

antonyms for ductile

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  • hard
  • inflexible
  • intractable
  • stiff
  • unyielding
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How to use ductile in a sentence

Other kinds of lava are much more ductile and viscous, and coagulate superficially in glossy or wrinkled crusts.
GEOLOGYJAMES GEIKIE
Consider the vigour, popularity, pleasantness of an art of coinage thus ductile to events, and easy in manipulution.
VAL D'ARNOJOHN RUSKIN
Copper is very malleable and ductile when cold, and in this state may be easily worked under the hammer.
OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING AND CUTTINGHAROLD P. MANLY
It forms a metal with high tensile strength while being ductile and malleable.
OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING AND CUTTINGHAROLD P. MANLY
The most ductile and tenacious soft iron, free from all blemishes, must be selected for this slip.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW URE
It has the appearance of twisted ribands; is white or reddish; nearly opaque, and a little ductile.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW URE
This alloy is often found to be brittle at the first mixing, but becomes ductile after remelting.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 467, DECEMBER 13, 1884VARIOUS
What evil had the alternately ductile and unmanageable Shelley been educated into thinking of his no longer incomparable friend?
THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. I (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON
Ibsen's earliest impressions of what these poets had become accustomed to at a ductile age were contradictory and even incoherent.
HENRIK IBSENEDMUND GOSSE
Swedish iron is largely used in the manufacture of upholstery tacks because of its peculiar ductile qualities.
PHILO GUBB CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL DETECTIVEELLIS PARKER BUTLER
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WORDS RELATED TO DUCTILE

  • AC-DC
  • adjustable
  • all around
  • alterable
  • can-do
  • changeable
  • compliant
  • conformable
  • convertible
  • ductile
  • easygoing
  • flexible
  • hanging loose
  • malleable
  • modifiable
  • moldable
  • plastic
  • pliable
  • pliant
  • resilient
  • supple
  • switch-hitting
  • tractable
  • variable
  • versatile
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