Word Meanings - TRACTILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRACTILE)

• Ductile
• Malleable
• extensible
• tractile
• extensile
• tractable
• docile
• irresolute
• Plastic
• pliant
• yielding
• malleable
• flexible

Related words: (words related to TRACTILE)

• 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.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• 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.
• PLASTIC
  a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic (more info) 1. Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
• MALLEABLENESS
  Quality of being malleable.
• TRACTILE
  Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• FLEXIBLE
  1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak. 2. Willing or ready
• 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. --
• PLASTICALLY
  In a plastic manner.
• PLASTICITY
  Plastic force. Dunglison. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being plastic.
• 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
• YIELDLESS
  Without yielding; unyielding.
• EXTENSILE
  Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• 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.
• PROPLASTIC
  Forming a mold.
• APLASTIC
  Not plastic or easily molded.
• STOMATOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
• PROTOPLASTIC
  First-formed. Howell.
• PHELLOPLASTICS
  Art of modeling in cork.
• EMPLASTIC
  Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• UNFLEXIBLE
  Inflexible.
• GALVANOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like.
• INFLEXIBLE
  1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
• ECTOPLASTIC
  Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.
• RHINOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.
• MONOPLASTIC
  That has one form, or retains its primary form, as, a monoplastic element.