Word Meaning

Meaning of "plastic" and the crossword clue

- Cat’s lip reshaped with synthetic material
- Credit card (coll)
- Fake-looking credit cards
- Flexible sort of surgeon?
- Malleable
- meretricious
- Pliable
- resilient
- Synthetic material
- Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
- Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
- Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
- a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]