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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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: bends and snaps 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}]
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