About The Word Supple
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Supple
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Supple: 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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