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Supple

Supple Meaning & Definition
Supple Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Supple?

[adj] (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
[adj] (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
[adj] gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease
[v] make pliant and flexible, as of leather and skins; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Supple: flexible | flexile | graceful | limber | lissom | lissome | lithe | lithesome | slender | svelte | sylphlike

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See Also | alter | change

Supple In Webster's Dictionary

\Sup"ple\, a. [OE. souple, F. souple, from L. supplex suppliant, perhaps originally, being the knees. Cf. {Supplicate}.] 1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers. 2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. --Locke. 3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. --Addison. Syn: Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending; flattering; fawning; soft.
\Sup"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suppled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suppling}.] 1. To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep. --Spenser. 2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will. --Locke. They should supple our stiff willfulness. --Barrow.
\Sup"ple\, v. i. To become soft and pliant. The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. --Dryden.

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