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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure: a malleable metal.
  2. adj. Easily controlled or influenced; tractable.
  3. adj. Able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable: the malleable mind of the pragmatist.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Capable of being shaped or extended by beating or rolling; capable of extension by hammering; reducible to a laminated form by beating, as gold, which may be beaten into leaves (gold-foil) of extreme thinness; hence, capable of being shaped by outside influence; yielding. See foil.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
  2. adj. metaphorical Flexible, liable to change.
  3. adj. cryptography, of an algorithm in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
  2. adj. Capable of being influenced to behave as desired; tractable; -- used mostly of children.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  2. adj. easily influenced

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English malliable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from malleāre ("to hammer"), from malleus ("hammer"), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of Proto-Indo-European *melH₂- (“crush, grind”). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin malleābilis, from malleāre, to hammer, from Latin malleus, hammer; see melə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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