Synonyms for plastic
ˈplæs tɪkplas·tic

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1. plasticnoun

   Antonyms:
   elastic, genuine

2. plasticnoun

   Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.

   Antonyms:
   genuine, elastic

3. plasticadjective

   Producing tissue.

   Antonyms:
   genuine, elastic

4. plasticnoun

   A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.

   Antonyms:
   elastic, genuine

5. plasticnoun

   Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.

   Antonyms:
   genuine, elastic

6. plasticnoun

   Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.

   Antonyms:
   elastic, genuine

7. plasticadjective

   Made of plastic.

   Antonyms:
   genuine, elastic

8. plasticadjective

   Antonyms:
   genuine, elastic

9. plasticadjective

   Antonyms:
   elastic, genuine

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1. plastic

   Synonyms:
   ductile, pliant, yielding, malleable, tractile, flexible

   Antonyms:
   stubborn, unyielding, inert, unmalleable, inflexible, intractile

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1. plasticnoun

   generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives

   Synonyms:
   charge card, charge plate, credit card

   Antonyms:
   inelastic, destructive, unimpressionable

2. credit card, charge card, charge plate, plasticadjective

   a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered

   "do you take plastic?"

   Synonyms:
   charge card, charge plate, credit card

   Antonyms:
   unimpressionable, destructive, inelastic

3. fictile, moldable, plasticadjective

   capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)

   "plastic substances such as wax or clay"

   Synonyms:
   moldable, fictile, pliant, pliable, shaping, formative

   Antonyms:
   unimpressionable, inelastic, destructive

4. plastic, pliantadjective

   capable of being influenced or formed

   "the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature"

   Synonyms:
   bendable, waxy, flexible, tractile, moldable, elastic, pliant, ductile, shaping, tensile, malleable, formative, fictile, pliable

   Antonyms:
   inelastic, destructive, unimpressionable

5. formative, shaping, plasticadjective

   forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning

   "a formative influence"; "a formative experience"

   Synonyms:
   moldable, fictile, shaping, pliant, formative

   Antonyms:
   inelastic, unimpressionable, destructive

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1. • Solid

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1. non-disposable

   Submitted by anonymous on January 28, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. plasticadjective

   Synonyms:
   formative

2. plasticadjective

   Synonyms:
   soft, pliable, easily moulded

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1. plasticadjective

   Synonyms:
   formative, creative, impressible, fictile

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1. List of paraphrases for "plastic":

   plastics, vinyl, plastiques, plastique, aesthetic, rubber, plasticity

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1. List of known nicknames for "Plastic":

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1. Joanne Liu:

   They see their relatives sprayed with chlorine and wrapped in plastic bags, buried without ceremony. Then they see their possessions burned.

2. Kavita Prakash-Mani:

   We cannot just remove it, therefore we need to tackle plastic pollution at its very source [and] stop it from getting into the nature in the first place.

3. Budi Susanto Sadiman:

   An excise duty on plastic bags is useless.

4. Theodore Harold White:

   Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

5. Clare Ostle:

   Many people now use reusable bags, recycle where possible and shop consciously by choosing to take food or drink items with less plastic, i very much hope that this awareness surrounding plastics will continue and spill over into other environmental issues such as our emissions.