Word Meanings - EXTENSILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXTENSILE)

• Ductile
• Malleable
• extensible
• tractile
• extensile
• tractable
• docile
• irresolute
• Elastic
• alterable
• resilient
• modifiable
• flexible
• buoyant
• springy

Related words: (words related to EXTENSILE)

• RESILIENT
  Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
• 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.
• SPRINGY
  1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as,
• 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.
• ELASTIC
  1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• 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. --
• ELASTICITY
  1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc;
• ALTERABLE
  Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.
• ELASTICALLY
  In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
• MODIFIABLE
  Capable of being modified; liable to modification.
• 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.
• ELASTICNESS
  The quality of being elastic; elasticity.
• ELASTICAL
  Elastic. Bentley.
• IRRESILIENT
  Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
• UNELASTICITY
  Inelasticity.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• UNFLEXIBLE
  Inflexible.
• 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
• INELASTICITY
  Want of elasticity.
• 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;