ductile
adjUK /ˈdʌk.taɪl/ · US /ˈdʌk.təl/
Etymology From Old French, from Latin ductilis (“easily led”).
1
Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
- ductile material
- ductile shape
4 more examples
- ductile alloy
- ductile state
- Gold is highly ductile, allowing it to be drawn into very fine wires.
- The ductile nature of copper makes it essential in electrical wiring.
2
Molded easily into a new form.
- their organisation was, by hereditary culture, much more ductile and more readily capable of acquiring knowledge than mine.1871, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race, Chapter VII:
3
Rare Led easily; prone to follow.
- Antonyms
- brittle
- Derived terms
- ductile fracture, ductile iron, ductilely, ductileness, ductilimeter, ductility, ductilize, inductile, nonductile, semiductile
- Coordinate terms
- malleable