plastic

Plural: plastics

Noun

• A synthetic material that can be molded when soft.
• 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
• 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?"
• A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
• Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
• Insincerity; fakeness; a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population; a narcissistic, affected person.
• An instance of plastic surgery.
• A sculptor, moulder.
• Any solid but malleable substance.

Adjective Satellite

• capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)
  • "plastic substances such as wax or clay"
• capable of being influenced or formed
  • "the plastic minds of children"
• forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning

Adj

• Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
• Producing tissue.
• Creative, formative.
• Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
• Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
• Made of plastic.
• Inferior or not the real thing.
• Fake, insincere, especially in a shallow and conformist way pretending to smoothness and glossy flawlessness.
• Escaped from captivity, rather than wild.
• Introduced, rather than native or naturally vagrant.

Examples

• I knew the war between cash and credit cards was over and plastic had won, hands down, when even Mickey D's started taking credit and debit cards.
• the rage […] betook itself at last to certain missile weapons; which, though from their plastic nature they threatened neither the loss of life or of limb, were, however, sufficiently dreadful to a well-dressed lady.
• The tiles, though made of PLASTIC, held the potential for immense linguistic creativity.

Synonyms

charge card, charge plate, credit card, fictile, formative, moldable, pliant, shaping, ductile, ersatz, fake, flexible, formable, insincere, malleable, plastic, sequacious, shapeable

Antonyms

elastic, genuine, sincere

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