plastic
IPA: pɫˈæstɪk
noun
- A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
- (colloquial, metonymically) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
- (figurative, slang) insincerity; fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
- (slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
- (obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
- (archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
adjective
- Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
- (medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.
- (dated) Creative, formative.
- (biology) 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.
- (figurative, informal, of a person) fake; insincere.
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