malleable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Easily shaped or changed; flexible.

   My opinion on the subject is still malleable.

2. 2
   adj

   Easily influenced or controlled by others.

   The new recruits were young and malleable.

3. 3
   adj

   Able to be hammered or pressed into thin sheets without breaking.

   Gold is so malleable that it can be beaten into very thin foil.

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).

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