flexible

(noun, adjective)

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.