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Italian
Etymology
From Latin malleus + -abile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mal.leˈa.bi.le/
- Rhymes: -abile
- Hyphenation: mal‧le‧à‧bi‧le
Adjective
malleabile (plural malleabili)
- malleable (able to be hammered into thin sheets)
- Synonym: duttile
- Antonym: resistente
- pliable
- soft
- (figurative) docile
- Synonyms: accondiscendente, arrendevole, docile, morbido, remissivo
- Antonyms: indocile, ribelle, rigido, (familiar) tosto
Derived terms
Further reading
- malleabile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- malleabile in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa