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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Flexible

Flexible (flexible)
a.(?)
Flex"i*ble
[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.














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