Definition of Flexeble
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; 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.
- 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.
- Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
- This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. --Rogers.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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