Meanings
comparative more manipulable · superlative most manipulable
- Suitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation.
I think we have a responsibility to emphasize to our students that law is something less: a system, manipulable like any other, for achieving political and policy ends.
2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 20241 more example
He wondered if this was how men like Jardine and Matheson saw the world – minuscule, manipulable. If people and places moved around the lines they drew. If cities shattered when they stomped.
2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 457Synonyms: manipulatable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveeasily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
1859, from manipulate + -able.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch manipuleerbaar
- manipuleerbaarsuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
Finnish manipuloitavissa
- manipuloitavissasuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
French manipulable, malléable
- manipulablesuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
- malléablesuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
- influençablesuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
German manipulierbar
- manipulierbarsuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
Hungarian manipulálható
- manipulálhatósuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
Polish dający się manipulować
- dający się manipulowaćsuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
Portuguese manipulável
- manipulávelsuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
Romanian manipulabil, influențabil
- manipulabilsuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
- influențabilsuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
- maleabilsuitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation
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manipulable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manipulable
“manipulable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manipulable. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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