01 a. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
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Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.“Forms their ductile minds To human virtues.” — Philips.
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Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.“Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals.” — Dryden.