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  • 111pliable — adj 1. flexible, flexile, flexuous, bendable, pliant; elastic, supple, lithe, limber, willowy, lissome; malleable, extensile, extensible, ductile, tractile, plastic, stretchable; bending, shapable, moldable, fictile. 2. persuasible, persuadable,… …

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  • 112tractable — adj 1. docile, tame, dutiful, obedient; yielding, submissive, willing, amenable, complaisant; manageable, governable, guidable, leadable. 2. malleable, handleable, pliable, flexible; plastic, ductile, tractile, fictile, adaptable; extensile,… …

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  • 113ungovernable — un·governable …

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  • 114obedient — adjective Syn: compliant, biddable, acquiescent, good, law abiding, deferential, governable, docile, submissive Ant: rebellious …

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  • 115unruly — un•ru•ly [[t]ʌnˈru li[/t]] adj. li•er, li•est not submissive or cooperative; ungovernable; unmanageable • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME unruely= un I+ruly, ruely governable, controllable un•ru′li•ness, n …

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  • 116govern — /ˈgʌvən / (say guvuhn) verb (t) 1. to rule by right of authority, as a sovereign does: to govern a state. 2. to exercise a directing or restraining influence over; guide: the motives governing a decision. 3. to hold in check: to govern one s… …

  • 117uncontrollable — /ʌnkənˈtroʊləbəl/ (say unkuhn trohluhbuhl) adjective 1. not governable: an uncontrollable temper. 2. not abiding by any rules or responding to any discipline: an uncontrollable child. –uncontrollability /ʌnkəntroʊləˈbɪləti/ (say unkuhntrohluh… …

  • 118docile — [adj] compliant, submissive accommodating, acquiescent, adaptable, agreeable, amenable, biddable, childlike, complacent, cool, docious, ductile, easily influenced, easy, easygoing, gentle, governable, humble, laidback, manageable, meek, mellow,… …

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  • 119impossible — [adj1] beyond the bounds of possibility absurd, beyond, contrary to reason, cureless, futile, hardly possible, hopeless, hundred to one*, impassable, impervious, impracticable, impractical, inaccessible, inconceivable, inexecutable, infeasible,… …

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  • 120malleable — [adj] pliable adaptable, compliant, ductile, flexible, governable, go with the flow*, impressionable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliant, putty in hands*, rolls with punches*, soft, submissive, supple, tractable, tractile, transformable,… …

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