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adjective

Flexible adj.

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."

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." "Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible."

Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. "This was a principle more flexible to their purpose."

Synonyms: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile; obsequious; inconstant; wavering.

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Etymology of 'Flexible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flexible" Quotes from Famous Books

... spun from selected wool, took kindly to the natural dyes, and our friend, the Puritan housewife, soon found herself in possession of a stock of home-manufactured material, soft and flexible in quality, and quite as good in color as that of the lamented English crewels. The homespun and woven linens with which her chests were stocked were exactly the ground for decorative needlework of the kind which she had ...

— The Development of Embroidery in America • Candace Wheeler

... (and that either an absolute necessity, and unavoidable decree; or a placable and flexible Providence) or all is a mere casual confusion, void of all order and government. If an absolute and unavoidable necessity, why doest thou resist? If a placable and exorable Providence, make thyself worthy ...

— Meditations • Marcus Aurelius

... obtained as a by-product of sheet mica and from deposits where the crystals are not so well developed. Black mica (biotite) and chlorite minerals, which are soft and flexible but not elastic and are found extensively developed in certain schists, have been used to a limited extent for the ...

— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith

... A judge on the bench may try a case lasting two weeks, and his hat will not be hopelessly behind the times when it is finished. A man can stoop to pick up a fallen magazine without pausing to remember that his front steels are not so flexible this ...

— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed

... that, whatever emergency occurred, he might do all that was possible. The young girl herself was a presence not soon to be forgotten. Her lips were slightly parted, her eye glowing with a joyous sense of power, and her pose, flexible to the eccentric motions of the horse, grace itself. They passed on down the winding carriage-drive, out upon the main street, and then she turned, waved her handkerchief to Mr. Muir, and with her ...

— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe

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