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Flexible Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Flexible? [adj] bends and snaps back readily without breaking [adj] able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches" [adj] extended meanings; capable of change; "a flexible character"; "flexible schedules" [adj] making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [adj] able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Flexible: adaptable \| bendable \| compromising \| conciliatory \| double-jointed \| elastic \| flexile \| limber \| negotiable \| pliable \| pliant \| stretched \| supple \| versatile \| yielding Related Terms \| Find terms related to Flexible: able to adapt \| acquiescent \| adaptable \| adaptive \| adjustable \| all-around \| alterable \| alterative \| ambidextrous \| amenable \| amphibious \| bendable \| bending \| biddable \| bouncy \| buoyant \| changeable \| checkered \| complaisant \| compliant \| conformable \| convenient \| cooperative \| creased \| crimped \| docile \| dog-eared \| doubled \| ductile \| easy \| elastic \| ever-changing \| extensible \| extensile \| fabricable \| facile \| feasible \| fictile \| flexile \| flexuous \| flounced \| fluid \| fluted \| foldable \| folded \| folding \| foolproof \| formable \| formative \| gathered \| generally capable \| giving \| handy \| impermanent \| impressible \| impressionable \| kaleidoscopic \| like putty \| limber \| lissome \| lithe \| lithesome \| lively \| malleable \| manageable \| maneuverable \| many-sided \| metamorphic \| mobile \| modifiable \| moldable \| movable \| mutable \| nonuniform \| obedient \| other-directed \| permutable \| persuadable \| persuasible \| plaited \| plastic \| pleated \| pliable \| pliant \| plicate \| plicated \| plicatile \| practical \| protean \| proteiform \| quilled \| receptive \| resilient \| resourceful \| responsive \| rubbery \| ruffled \| sensitive \| sequacious \| shapable \| springy \| stretch \| stretchable \| stretchy \| submissive \| supple \| susceptible \| tensile \| tractable \| tractile \| transient \| transitory \| tucked \| twilled \| two-handed \| unaustere \| undemanding \| unexacting \| unharsh \| unsevere \| unstrict \| untroublesome \| variable \| versatile \| whippy \| wieldable \| wieldy \| willowy \| yielding See Also \| Flexible In Webster's Dictionary \Flex"ible\, a. [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.] 1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. --Shak. 2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. --Bacon. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --Shak. 3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. --Rogers. Syn: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile; obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- {Flex"ibleness}, n. -- {Flex"ibly}, adv.

Flexible Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flexible?

[adj] bends and snaps back readily without breaking
[adj] able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches"
[adj] extended meanings; capable of change; "a flexible character"; "flexible schedules"
[adj] making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
[adj] able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"

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Flexible In Webster's Dictionary

\Flex"i*ble\, a. [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.]
1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being
   turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable;
   yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.

         When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of
         knotted oaks.                         --Shak.

2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not
   invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;
   ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.

         Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways
         flexible to the will of the people.   --Bacon.

         Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.

3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a
   flexible language.

         This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
                                               --Rogers.

Syn: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile;
     obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- {Flex"i*ble*ness},
     n. -- {Flex"i*bly}, adv.

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