Dictionary Definition
flexible adj
1 extended meanings; capable of change; "a
flexible character"; "flexible schedules" [ant: inflexible]
2 able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim
flexible birches" [syn: flexile] [ant: inflexible]
3 able to adjust readily to different conditions;
"an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause
in a contract" [syn: elastic, pliable, pliant]
4 bending and snapping back readily without
breaking
5 making or willing to make concessions;
"loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the
compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising, conciliatory] [ant:
uncompromising]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
\Flex"i*ble\Adjective
- Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be 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. -
- 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. -
- Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to
the will of the people. -Bacon.
- Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible
language.
- This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. -Rogers.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
easily bent without breaking
- Czech: ohebný
- Finnish: joustava
- German: biegsam, flexibel, elastisch, dehnbar
- Hungarian: hajlékony
- Russian: гибкий
easy and compliant
- Finnish: joustava
- German: fügsam, flexibel, elastisch, nachgiebig
- Hungarian: alkalmazkodó
- Russian: покладистый
capable or being adapted or molded
- Finnish: joustava
- German: flexibel, dehnbar, weich
- Hungarian: rugalmas
- Russian: гибкий
References
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French
Etymology
FromExtensive Definition
Things known as Flexible include:
- Flexible electronics
- Flexible response
- Flexible mold
- Flexible employment
- Flexible-fuel vehicle
- Flexible rake receiver
- Flexible spending account
- Flexible single master operation
- Flexible baton round
- Flexible AC transmission system
- Very Large Flexible Barge
- Semi-flexible rod polymer
- The Flxible Company (originally the Flexible Sidecar Co.)
See also
flexible in Korean: 플렉서블
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
able to adapt, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, all-around,
alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, amenable, amphibious, bendable, bending, biddable, bouncy, buoyant, changeable, checkered, complaisant, compliant, conformable, convenient, cooperative, creased, crimped, docile, dog-eared, doubled, ductile, easy, elastic, ever-changing, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexile, flexuous, flounced, fluid, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, foolproof, formable, formative, gathered, generally capable,
giving, handy, impermanent, impressible, impressionable, kaleidoscopic, like putty,
limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, many-sided,
metamorphic,
mobile, modifiable, moldable, movable, mutable, nonuniform, obedient, other-directed,
permutable, persuadable, persuasible, plaited, plastic, pleated, pliable, pliant, plicate, plicated, plicatile, practical, protean, proteiform, quilled, receptive, resilient, resourceful, responsive, rubbery, ruffled, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tensile, tractable, tractile, transient, transitory, tucked, twilled, two-handed, unaustere, undemanding, unexacting, unharsh, unsevere, unstrict, untroublesome, variable, versatile, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy, yielding