ductile

From Old French, from Latin ductilis (“easily led”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌk.taɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌk.təl/, /ˈdʌk.taɪl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌktaɪl

ductile (comparative more ductile, superlative most ductile)

1. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.

   ductile material

   ductile shape

   ductile alloy

   ductile state

2. Molded easily into a new form.
3. (rare) Led easily; prone to follow.

• (molded easily): flexible, plastic, pliant; see also Thesaurus:moldable
• (led easily): tractable

• (antonym(s) of “capable of being pulled into thin wire”): brittle

• malleable

• duct
• ductility

• elastic

• dulcite

From Latin.

• IPA^(key): /dyk.til/

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ductile (plural ductiles)

1. ductile (capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire)

• “ductile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dulcite

ductile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of ductilis

• ductile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)