- 1. a. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. Source: opted
- 2. a. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. Source: opted
- 3. a. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. Source: opted
- 4. adj. capable of being changed Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. able to flex; able to bend easily Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. able to adjust readily to different conditions Source: wordnet
- 7. adj. bending and snapping back readily without breaking Source: wordnet
- 8. adj. making or willing to make concessions Source: wordnet
- 9. 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
- 10. j:100 a. capable of being changed a. able to flex; able to bend easily s. bending and snapping back readily without breaking Source: ecdict
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