Word Meanings - FLEXIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLEXIBLE)

• Elastic
• Ductile
• extensile
• alterable
• resilient
• modifiable
• flexible
• buoyant
• springy
• Facile
• Docile
• tractable
• manageable
• indulgent
• weak
• irresolute
• easy
• affable
• characterless
• pliable
• little
• Pliant
• limber
• supple
• elastic
• agile
• Plastic
• pliant
• yielding
• malleable
• tractile
• Pliable
• Flexible
• like
• ductile
• facile
• lithe

Related words: (words related to FLEXIBLE)

• RESILIENT
  Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
• MALLEABLE
  Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. --
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• MALLEABLEIZE
  To make malleable.
• SPRINGY
  1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as,
• LITHERLY
  Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. He was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• PLIABLE
  1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• SUPPLELY
  In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.
• AGILELY
  In an agile manner; nimbly.
• DUCTILE
  1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold
• LITHENESS
  The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
• MANAGEABLE
  Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. -- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv.
• LITHER
  Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton. Note: Professor Skeat thinks " the lither sky" as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. means the stagnant or pestilential sky. -- Li"ther*ly,
• INDULGENTLY
  In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.
• PLASTIC
  a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic (more info) 1. Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
• PROPLASTIC
  Forming a mold.
• IRRESILIENT
  Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• APLASTIC
  Not plastic or easily molded.
• STOMATOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• PHELLOPLASTICS
  Art of modeling in cork.
• PROTOPLASTIC
  First-formed. Howell.
• UNELASTICITY
  Inelasticity.
• EMPLASTIC
  Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.