plastic

adj.虚假的,不真诚;adj.可塑的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
plastic (adjective)
1.
- formative creative plastic forces in nature
2.
a) capable of being molded or modeled - plastic clay
b) capable of adapting to varying conditions - pliable ecologically plastic animals
3.
- sculptural
4.
made or consisting of a plastic
5.
capable of being deformed continuously and permanently in any direction without rupture
6.
of, relating to, or involving plastic surgery
7.
having a quality suggestive of mass-produced plastic goods , especially - artificial plastic smiles
8.
relating to, characterized by, or exhibiting neural - plasticity
plastic (noun)
1.
a plastic substance , specifically any of numerous organic synthetic or processed materials that are mostly thermoplastic or thermosetting polymers of high molecular weight and that can be made into objects, films, or filaments
2.
credit cards used for payment - called also plastic money
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
plastic (adjective)
1.
capable of being easily molded or modeled
SYNONYMS:
malleable, moldable, shapable ( shapeable), waxy
RELATED WORDS:
adaptable; bendable, bendy [], ductile, pliable, pliant, supple, waxen, willowy; elastic, flexible, flexile, limber, resilient, workable; bending, giving, kneadable, tractable, yielding
NEAR ANTONYMS:
inflexible, intractable, rigid, stiff
plastic (adjective)
2.
lacking in natural or spontaneous quality
SYNONYMS:
affected, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony ( phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural
RELATED WORDS:
automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic; double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous; exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical ( theatric); cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering; conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden; artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
NEAR ANTONYMS:
authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true; honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending; easy, effortless, smooth; extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied
artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced
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