- made of plastic
- a plastic bag/bottle/cup
- recyclable plastic containers
- (of a material or substance) easily formed into different shapes synonym malleable
- Clay is a plastic substance.
- (disapproving) that seems artificial; false; not real or sincere synonym false
- TV game show hosts with their banal remarks and plastic smiles
- The flight attendants served up plastic food with little taste or texture.
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘characteristic of moulding’): from French plastique or Latin plasticus, from Greek plastikos, from plassein ‘to mould’.
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