plastic

plastic
adj
1. moldable, easily molded, fictile, soft, clayey, claylike, ductile, shapeable.
2. creative, artistic, imaginative, inventive, inspired, original; expressionistic, clever, innovative; perceptive, feeling, intuitive.
3. impressionable, impressible, malleable, pliable, pliant, flexible; yielding, compliant, waxy, persuadable, tractable, manageable, governable, docile; susceptible, receptive, responsive, sensitive, open, unformed, undeveloped, inexperienced; amenable, agreeable, easy, easy to lead, without a mind of one's own, spineless, wishy-washy.

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