Word Meanings - DUCTILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments. 2. Tractableness; pliableness. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DUCTILITY)

• Compliance
• Yielding
• submission
• obedience
• acquiescence
• consent
• ductility
• docility

Related words: (words related to DUCTILITY)

• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• OBEDIENCE
  1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames. 2. Words or actions denoting
• DOCILITY
  1. teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. 2. Willingness to be taught; tractableness. The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith.
• 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.
• DUCTILITY
  1. The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments. 2. Tractableness; pliableness. 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. --
• COMPLIANCE
  1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. What compliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay. 2. A disposition to yield to others;
• CONSENTER
  One who consents.
• CONSENTANEITY
  Mutual agreement.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• SUBMISSION
  An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the
• YIELDLESS
  Without yielding; unyielding.
• CONSENTIENT
  Agreeing in mind; accordant. The consentient judgment of the church. Bp. Pearson.
• 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
• CONSENTINGLY
  With consent; in a compliant manner. Jer. Taylor.
• CONSENTANT
  Consenting. Chaucer.
• CONSENT
  1. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur. And Saul was consenting unto his death. Acts. viii. 1. Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment. Fuller. 2. To indicate or
• ACQUIESCENCE
  1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. Submission to an injury by the party
• PRECONSENT
  A previous consent.
• INOBEDIENCE
  Disobedience. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• DISCONSENT
  To differ; to disagree; to dissent. Milton.
• NONSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
• NONCOMPLIANCE
  Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.
• DISOBEDIENCE
  Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.
• INCOMPLIANCE
  1. The quality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy. Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent. Tillotson. 2. Refusal or failure to comply. Strype.
• NONOBEDIENCE
  Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.