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.
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