Flexible

flexible
    adj 1: capable of being changed; "flexible schedules" [ant:
           {inflexible}]
    2: able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches"
       [syn: {flexible}, {flexile}] [ant: {inflexible}]
    3: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable
       person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a
       contract" [syn: {elastic}, {flexible}, {pliable}, {pliant}]
    4: bending and snapping back readily without breaking [syn:
       {flexible}, {whippy}]
    5: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore
       through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising
       Louis du Tillet" [syn: {compromising}, {conciliatory},
       {flexible}] [ant: {inflexible}, {sturdy}, {uncompromising}]
    

Flexible \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.
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            When the splitting wind
            Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. --Shak.
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   2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not
      invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;
      ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
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            Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways
            flexible to the will of the people.   --Bacon.
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            Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
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   3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a
      flexible language.
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            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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129 Moby Thesaurus words for "flexible":
      able to adapt, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable,
      all-around, alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, amenable,
      amphibious, bendable, bending, biddable, bouncy, buoyant,
      changeable, checkered, complaisant, compliant, conformable,
      convenient, cooperative, creased, crimped, docile, dog-eared,
      doubled, ductile, easy, elastic, ever-changing, extensible,
      extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexile,
      flexuous, flounced, fluid, fluted, foldable, folded, folding,
      foolproof, formable, formative, gathered, generally capable,
      giving, handy, impermanent, impressible, impressionable,
      kaleidoscopic, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
      lively, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, many-sided,
      metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moldable, movable, mutable,
      nonuniform, obedient, other-directed, permutable, persuadable,
      persuasible, plaited, plastic, pleated, pliable, pliant, plicate,
      plicated, plicatile, practical, protean, proteiform, quilled,
      receptive, resilient, resourceful, responsive, rubbery, ruffled,
      sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, stretch, stretchable,
      stretchy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tensile, tractable,
      tractile, transient, transitory, tucked, twilled, two-handed,
      unaustere, undemanding, unexacting, unharsh, unsevere, unstrict,
      untroublesome, variable, versatile, whippy, wieldable, wieldy,
      willowy, yielding