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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pliant/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pliant/#x1)
- Young twigs are pliant, but old wood is stiff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pliant/#x2)
- She has a pliant mind and learns quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pliant/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pliant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pliant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.