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Synonyms for malleable

Synonyms for malleable: workable, ductile and pliable. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

3 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line

The 3 synonyms for malleable

Interchangeable with malleable in this sense

Audited under malleable's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one malleable carries in that sense.

workableadjective, in the sense "capable of being shaped or hammered without breaking"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name malleable as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

ductileductile is an adjective in the sense "of a metal, able to be drawn out into a thin wire without breaking"
pliablepliable is an adjective in the sense "capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out"

one of these comes from malleable's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelineMaterials

capable of being shaped or hammered without breaking

Heated in the forge, the gold turned malleable enough to hammer into thin sheets.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

workable

Same sentence, swapped: Heated in the forge, the gold turned workable enough to hammer into thin sheets.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

rigid
durable
polished

Where malleable turns up in the game

malleable is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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