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| Main Entry: | plastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flexible, soft; made of manufactured, treated compounds |
| Synonyms: | bending, ductile, elastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, supple, workable, fictile, formable, moldable, molded, shapeable |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, stiff |
| Main Entry: | plastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily influenced |
| Synonyms: | amenable, bending, compliant, docile, ductile, flexible, giving, impressionable, malleable, manageable, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding, influenceable, moldable, suggestible |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, unflappable |
| Main Entry: | plastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial; made of manufactured compounds |
| Synonyms: | cast, chemical, ersatz, false, manufactured, phony, pseudo*, substitute, synthetic, unnatural |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adaptable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able and usually willing to change |
| Synonyms: | AC-DC*, adjustable, changeable, compliant, conformable, convertible, ductile, flexible, malleable, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, supple, tractable, variable, versatile, all around, alterable, can-do, easy-going, hanging loose, modifiable, moldable, switch-hitting |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, intractable, nonconforming, unadaptable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ductile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliant, flexible |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, amenable, docile, malleable, manageable, plastic, pliable, responsive, supple, tractable, yielding, biddable, extensile, moldable, submitting |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, intractable, stiff, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | impressionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily taught; gullible |
| Synonyms: | affected, feeling, impressible, ingenuous, open, perceptive, plastic*, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, vulnerable, affectable, influenceable, sensile, suggestible, susceptive, wax-like |
| Antonyms: | obstinate, stubborn, unresponsive, insusceptible, unimpressionable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | limber |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flexible |
| Synonyms: | agile, deft, elastic, graceful, lissome, lithe, loose, nimble, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, springy, spry, supple, lithesome |
| Antonyms: | rigid, stiff, straight, unbending |
| Main Entry: | limp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not stiff; weak |
| Synonyms: | bending, debilitated, drooping, droopy, ductile, enervated, exhausted, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flimsy, floppy, impressible, infirm, languid, languishing, lax, lethargic, limber, listless, loose, plastic, pliable, pliant, slack, soft, spent, spiritless, supple, tired, unsubstantial, weakened, worn out, yielding, flexuous, relaxed, wearied |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, rigid, stiff, straight, strong, unbending |
| Main Entry: | malleable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, compliant, ductile, flexible, governable, impressionable, manageable, plastic, pliant, soft, submissive, supple, tractable, workable, yielding, go-with-the-flow, moldable, putty in hands, rolls with punches, tractile, transformable |
| Antonyms: | firm, rigid, stiff |
| Main Entry: | meretricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gaudy, flashy |
| Synonyms: | blatant, bogus, brazen, chintzy, counterfeit, garish, glaring, insincere, loud, misleading, ornate, phony, plastic*, sham, showy, spurious, superficial, tawdry, trashy, put-on, tinsel |
| Notes: | meretricious means of or pertaining to prostitutes - alluring by vulgar or flashy display - based on pretense or insincerity; meritorious means deserving reward or praise |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, unembellished, undecorated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pliable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bendable, adaptable |
| Synonyms: | compliant, docile, ductile, easy, flexible, impressionable, limber, lithe, malleable, manageable, obedient, plastic, pliant, receptive, responsive, spongy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding, easily led, manipulable, moldable, putty, rolling with the punches |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, rigid, stiff, unyielding, unadaptable, unbendable, unpliable, unpliant |
| Main Entry: | resilient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bouncy, flexible |
| Synonyms: | airy, buoyant, effervescent, elastic, expansive, hardy, irrepressible, plastic, pliable, springy, strong, supple, tough, volatile, quick to recover, rebounding, rolling with punches, rubbery, snapping back, stretchy |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, rigid, stiff |
| Main Entry: | shoddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bad shape |
| Synonyms: | base, broken-down, cheap, cheesy*, common, dilapidated, dingy, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, gaudy, ignominious, inferior, inglorious, makeshift, mean, paltry, plastic, poor, pretentious, run-down, scruffy*, second-rate*, seedy, shabby, shady, shameful, sleazy*, slipshod, tacky*, tawdry, trashy, discreditable, junky, not up to snuff, unrespectable |
| Antonyms: | fine, good, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | supple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bendable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, agile, bending, ductile, elastic, flexible, graceful, limber, lissome, lithe, malleable, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, rubber, springy, stretch, svelte, willowy, wiry, yielding, lithesome, moldable, stretchy |
| Antonyms: | hard, rigid, stiff, unflexible |
| Main Entry: | synthetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial |
| Synonyms: | counterfeit, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, hokey*, made, makeshift, manufactured, mock, phony, plastic, unnatural, constructed, fabricated |
| Antonyms: | genuine, natural, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tawdry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap, tasteless |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, chintzy*, common, crude, dirty, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, glaring, glittering, jazzy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, offensive, plastic, poor, raffish, showy, sleazy*, sporty, tacky*, vulgar, flaring, glitzy, junky, screaming, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | nice, sophisticated, tasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tractable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | manageable |
| Synonyms: | amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, ductile, facile, flexible, game, governable, malleable, meek, obedient, persuadable, plastic, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tame, willing, workable, yielding, acquiescent, biddable, controllable, going along with, hanging loose, putty in hands, rolling with punches, tractile |
| Antonyms: | intractable, obstinate, stubborn, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unruly |
| Main Entry: | usual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, typical |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, average, chronic, commonplace, constant, conventional, current, customary, cut-and-dried*, everyday, expected, familiar, fixed, frequent, general, grind, habitual, mainstream, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plastic, prevailing, prevalent, quotidian, regular, rife, routine, run-of-the-mill*, so-so*, standard, stock, vanilla*, wonted, garden variety, matter-of-course, typic, unremarkable, white-bread, workaday |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, atypical, irregular, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | versatile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adjustable, flexible |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, adaptable, adroit, all-around, conversant, dexterous, elastic, facile, functional, gifted, handy, ingenuous, mobile, plastic, pliable, ready, resourceful, skilled, skillful, talented, variable, varied, all-purpose, ambidextrous, many-sided, multifaceted, protean, puttylike |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, limited, unadjustable |
| Main Entry: | charge card |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | credit card |
| Synonyms: | affinity card, bank card, debit card, plastic, charge plate, gold card, plastic money, platinum card |
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