N. softness,
pliableness,
flexibility, # pliancy,
pliability,
sequacity,
malleability,
ductility,
tractility, extendibility,
extensibility,
plasticity, inelasticity,
flaccidity,
laxity,
penetrability, clay, wax, butter,
dough,
pudding, alumina,
argil,
cushion,
pillow, feather bed, down,
padding,
wadding,
foam,
mollification,
softening V. render -soft,
soften,
mollify,
mellow,
relax, temper,
mash,
knead,
squash, bend, yield, relent,
relax, give, plasticize'
Adj. soft, tender,
supple,
pliant,
pliable, flexible,
flexile,
lithe,
lithesome,
lissom, limber,
plastic,
ductile,
tractile, tractable,
malleable,
extensile,
sequacious, inelastic,
aluminous,
remollient, yielding,
flabby,
limp,
flimsy,
doughy,
spongy,
penetrable,
foamy,
cushiony,
flaccid,
flocculent,
downy,
edematous,
oedematous,
medullary,
argillaceous,
mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken
N. {ant. 328} tenacity,
toughness, strength, # (cohesion) 46,
grip,
grasp,
stickiness, (cohesion) 46,
sequacity, stubbornness &c. (obstinacy),
glue, cement,
glutinousness,
sequaciousness,
viscidity, (semiliquidity) 352, leather, white leather,
whitleather,
gristle, cartilage, unbreakability, tensile strength
V. be tenacious, resist fracture,
grip,
grasp, stick (cohesion) 46
Adj. tenacious,
tough, strong, resisting,
sequacious,
stringy, gristly cartilaginous,
leathery,
coriaceous, tough as whitleather,
stubborn, unbreakable,
indivisible,
atomic