pliantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• IPA: /ˈplaɪənt/
• ハイフネーション: pli‧ant
• 韻: -aɪənt

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pliant (comparative more pliant, superlative most pliant)

1. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking.

   Synonyms: flexible, pliable, lithe, limber, plastic, supple, malleable, yielding, ductile

   a pliant thread

   pliant wax

   • 1917 April, “The Warblers of North America”, in The National Geographic Magazine:

     Whether in its northern or southern home, the black-throated blue warbler builds its nest of bark, roots, and other pliant material, loose and rather bulky, in a variety of saplings, bushes, and weeds, but always a few inches or a few feet from the ground.

2. (figuratively) Easily influenced; tractable.
   • 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [R. Robinson] for William Iones […], →OCLC, [Act I], signature A3, recto:

     I muſt haue wanton Poets, pleaſant wits,
     Muſitians, that with touching of a ſtring
     May draw the pliant king which way I pleaſe: […]

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 11, recto:

     [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]

   • 1839, William Gilmore Simms, “The Brooklet”, in Southern Passages and Pictures‎, New York: George Adlard, page 2:

     Yet there was pleasant sadness that became
     Meetly the gentle heart and pliant sense,
     In that same idlesse—gazing on that brook

   • 1988, A. J. Langguth, Patriots:

     [The king] had a pliant prime minister and a general who was telling him what he wanted to hear.

   • 2023 November 4, Madhumita Murgia, Anna Gross, Cristina Criddle, “Summit exposes tensions over AI development despite emollient Chinese tone”, in FT Weekend, page 12:

     The person said one of the reasons the Chinese had been so pliant in development of a joint position on AI governance was that “playing nice” and acting as a “responsible partner” could help foster conversations about relaxation of US trade barriers later down the line.

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