FLEXIBLY

flexibly

(adverb) with flexibility; “‘Come whenever you are free,’ he said flexibly”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

flexibly (comparative more flexibly, superlative most flexibly)

in a flexible manner

Source: Wiktionary


FLEXIBLE

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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