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Definition of malleable adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

malleable

adjective
 
/ˈmæliəbl/
 
/ˈmæliəbl/
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  1. (specialist) (of metal, etc.) that can be hit or pressed into different shapes easily without breaking or cracking (= starting to split)
  2. (of people, ideas, etc.) easily influenced or changed
  3. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘able to be hammered’): via Old French from medieval Latin malleabilis, from Latin malleus ‘a hammer’.
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