flexible
adjective
1. capable of being changed
- flexible schedules
Similar word(s): limber, supple, negotiable
2. able to flex; able to bend easily
- slim flexible birches
Similar word(s): elastic, bendable, pliable, pliant, waxy, limber, supple, spinnable, spinnbar, stretched, flexile
3. able to adjust readily to different conditions
- a flexible personality
Similar word(s): adaptable, elastic, pliable, pliant
4. bending and snapping back readily without breaking
Similar word(s): elastic, whippy
5. making or willing to make concessions
Similar word(s): yielding, compromising, conciliatory
Sentences with flexible as an adjective:
- When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. -William Shakespeare
- Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. - Francis Bacon.Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. - William Shakespeare
- This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. -Rogers.
noun
1. (chiefly engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible.