Definition of MALLEABLE

malleable

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • easily influenced
  • capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
    • "malleable metals such as gold"

Adj

  • Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
  • Flexible, liable to change.
  • in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Origin / Etymology

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).

Scrabble Score: 13

malleable is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
malleable is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
malleable is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

malleable is a valid Words With Friends word