Definitions for: Flexible


[adj] bends and snaps back readily without breaking
[adj] able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches"
[adj] extended meanings; capable of change; "a flexible character"; "flexible schedules"
[adj] making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
[adj] able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

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.

Synonyms: adaptable, bendable, compromising, conciliatory, double-jointed, elastic, flexile, limber, negotiable, pliable, pliant, stretched, supple, versatile, yielding

Antonyms: inflexible, uncompromising

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