Word Meanings - WANDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Long and flexible, like a wand. Brockett.

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
UNFLEXIBLE
Inflexible.
INFLEXIBLE
1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
INFLEXIBLENESS
The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
REFLEXIBLE
Capable of being reflected, or thrown back. The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible. Cheyne.