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plastic

adjective
  1. Capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out, as by hammering or pressure: ductile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, malleable, moldable, pliable, pliant, supple, workable. See flexible
  2. Changing easily, as in expression: changeable, fluid, mobile. See change
  3. Easily altered or influenced: ductile, elastic, flexible, flexile, impressionable, malleable, pliable, pliant, suggestible, supple. See flexible
  4. Physics. Capable of withstanding stress without injury: elastic, flexible, flexile, resilient, springy, supple. See flexible
  5. Marked by unnaturalness, pretension, and often a slavish love of fads: artificial, factitious, synthetic, unnatural. See honest

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