Dictionary entry

Ductile

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Duc″tile (?), a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile. See Duct.] 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... is the softest and most ductile of all metals. Dryden.

— Duc″tile‐ly (#), adv. — Duc″tile‐ness, n.