Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæl.iː.ə.bəl/
- Hyphenation: mal‧le‧a‧ble
Adjective
malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)
- Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
- (figurative) Flexible, liable to change.
My opinion on the subject is malleable.
2024 May 11, Lorna Camus, Kirsty Jones, Emily O’Dowd, Bonnie Auyeung, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Mary Elizabeth Stewart, “Autistic Traits and Psychosocial Predictors of Depressive Symptoms”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:The psychosocial factors in this study are malleable and provide target areas for enhancing mental health in those with high levels of autistic traits.
- (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
Translations
able to be hammered into thin sheets
- Azerbaijani: döyülə bilən
- Bulgarian: ковък (bg) (kovǎk)
- Catalan: mal·leable (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 可锻造的
- Czech: kujný (cs)
- Dutch: hamerbaar, smeedbaar (nl)
- Esperanto: maleebla
- Finnish: taottava (fi)
- French: malléable (fr)
- German: hämmerbar (de), schmiedbar (de), formbar (de), verformbar (de), dehnbar (de), plastisch (de), biegsam (de), biegbar (de), weich (de), geschmeidig (de), veränderbar (de), gestaltbar, knetbar (de)
- Hungarian: nyújtható (hu)
- Italian: malleabile (it)
- Macedonian: ко́влив (kóvliv)
- Maori: māngohe
- Norwegian: bøyelig (no), fleksibel, smidig (no)
- Persian: چکش خور (čakoš xor)
- Polish: kowalny m, kujny (pl) m
- Portuguese: maleável (pt)
- Romanian: maleabil (ro)
- Russian: ко́вкий (ru) (kóvkij), пластичный (ru) (plastičnyj)
- Slovak: kujný
- Spanish: maleable (es)
- Swedish: smidbar (sv)
- Tagalog: pukpukin
- Turkish: dövülgen (tr)
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liable to change
- Bulgarian: податлив (bg) (podatliv)
- Czech: měnitelný m, poddajný (cs) m, tvarovatelný m, tvárný (cs) m
- Dutch: kneedbaar (nl), beïnvloedbaar (nl)
- Esperanto: ŝanĝebla
- Finnish: mukautuvainen
- German: veränderlich (de), flexibel (de), formbar (de), dehnbar (de), beeinflussbar (de)
- Hungarian: képlékeny (hu)
- Italian: malleabile (it), forgiabile (it)
- Macedonian: по́датлив (pódatliv), ме́нлив (ménliv)
- Manx: so-lhoobagh, so-chummeydagh
- Norwegian: fleksibel, smidig (no), formbar (no)
- Persian: قابل انعطاف (fa) (qâbel-e en'etâf), انعطاف پذیر (en'etâf pazir)
- Polish: podatny (pl) m
- Portuguese: maleável (pt)
- Romanian: maleabil (ro)
- Russian: пода́тливый (ru) (podátlivyj), восприимчивый (ru) (vospriimčivyj)
- Swedish: smidbar (sv)
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