Usually means: Easily bent; flexible; easily influenced.
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  1. pliable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pliable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pliable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pliable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pliable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pliable, pliable: Wordnik
  7. pliable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pliable: Wiktionary
  9. pliable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pliable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pliable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pliable, pliable: Dictionary.com
  13. pliable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Pliable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pliable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pliable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pliable: Rhymezone
  18. pliable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pliable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. pliable: Free Dictionary
  21. pliable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pliable: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. pliable: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Pliable: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pliable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pliable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See pliability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded.
adjective:  Easily persuaded; yielding to influence.

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