FLEXIBLE

flexible, whippy

(adjective) bending and snapping back readily without breaking

flexible, flexile

(adjective) able to flex; able to bend easily; “slim flexible birches”

flexible

(adjective) capable of being changed; “flexible schedules”

compromising, conciliatory, flexible

(adjective) making or willing to make concessions; “loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet”

elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant

(adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions; “an adaptable person”; “a flexible personality”; “an elastic clause in a contract”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

flexible (comparative more flexible, superlative most flexible)

Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.

Synonym: pliable

Antonyms: stiff, brittle, inflexible

Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.

Synonyms: tractable, manageable, ductile

Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.

Synonyms: plastic, malleable

Synonyms

• bendsome

• ductile

• inconstant

• manageable

• obsequious

• pliant

• pliable

• supple

• tractable

• wavering

Noun

flexible (plural flexibles)

(chiefly, engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible.

Source: Wiktionary


Flex"i*ble, a. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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