'Flexible' definitions:
Definition of 'flexible'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Capable of being changed; "flexible schedules" [ant: inflexible]
adjective
Able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches" [syn: flexible, flexile] [ant: inflexible]
adjective
Able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract" [syn: elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant]
adjective
Bending and snapping back readily without breaking [syn: flexible, whippy]
adjective
Making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising]
Definition of 'Flexible'
From: GCIDE
- Flexible \Flex"i*ble\, a. [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. [1913 Webster]
- When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. [1913 Webster]
- Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flexible'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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