malleable

adjective
🔊/ˈmæliəbl/
🔊/ˈmæliəbl/
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  1. (specialist) (of metal, etc.金属等) that can be hit or pressed into different shapes easily without breaking or cracking可锻造的;可轧压的;易成型的 (= starting to split)
  2. (of people, ideas, etc.人、思想等) easily influenced or changed可塑的;易受影响(或改变)的
  3. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘able to be hammered’): via Old French from medieval Latin malleabilis, from Latin malleus ‘a hammer’.