Word Meanings - PLIANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod. "Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind." Wordsworth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLIANCY)

• Facility
• Ease
• address
• readiness
• quickness
• adroitness
• dexterity
• pliancy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PLIANCY)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass

Related words: (words related to PLIANCY)

• PLIANCY
  The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod. "Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind." Wordsworth.
• DEXTERITY
  1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• ADROITNESS
  The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley. Syn. -- See Skill.
• AVOIDLESS
  Unavoidable; inevitable.
• AVOIDANCE
  1. The act of annulling; annulment. 2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . .
• ELUDE
  To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or
• AVOIDER
  1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. 2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
• FACILITY
  1. The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke 2. Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill
• ADDRESSEE
  One to whom anything is addressed.
• IGNORE
  To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus. 3. Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly;
• READINESS
  The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness. They received the word with all readiness of mind. Acts xvii. 11. Syn. -- Facility; quickness; expedition; promptitude; promptness; aptitude; aptness; knack; skill;
• AVOIDABLE
  1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale. 2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
• ADDRESSION
  The act of addressing or directing one's course. Chapman.
• AVOID
  To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone. Syn. -- To escape; elude; evade; eschew. -- To Avoid, Shun. Avoid in its commonest
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• UNAVOIDED
  1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson.
• DELUDER
  One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
• AMBIDEXTERITY
  A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict. (more info) 1. The quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force,
• HEADDRESS
  1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison. 2. A manner of dressing the hair or
• DELUDE
  1. To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of. To delude the nation by an airy phantom. Burke. 2. To frustrate or disappoint. It deludes thy search. Dryden. Syn. --
• COMPLIANCY
  Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith.