About The Word Flexible
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Flexible Definition And Meaning |
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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"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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