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Word Meanings - EXTENSIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.

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  • MALLEABLE
    Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. --
  • MALLEABLEIZE
    To make malleable.
  • DUCTILE
    1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold
  • EXTENSIBLENESS
    Extensibility.
  • MALLEABLENESS
    Quality of being malleable.
  • TRACTILE
    Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.
  • IRRESOLUTE
    Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. Cowper. Syn. -- Wavering; vacillating; undetermined; undecided; unsettled; fickle; changeable; inconstant. -- Ir*res"o*lute*ly, adv. --
  • TRACTABLE
    1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak. 2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable
  • EXTENSILE
    Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.
  • DOCILE
    1. Teachable; easy to teach; docible. 2. Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.
  • EXTENSIBLE
    Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.
  • EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
    Capable of being extracted.
  • ATTRACTILE
    Having power to attract.
  • IRRETRACTILE
    1. Not retractile. 2. Not tractile or ductile. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • PROTRACTILE
    Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.
  • INTRACTILE
    Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended. Bacon.
  • INTRACTABLE
    Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Syn. -- Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable;
  • PRODUCTILE
    Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
  • RETRACTILE
    CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
  • ATTRACTABLE
    Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract"a*ble*ness, n.
  • NONEXTENSILE
    Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.
  • INDOCILE
    Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.
  • CONTRACTILE
    tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.

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