flexible
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 23
- Letters
- 8
/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/(UK)
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/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/(UK) · /ˈflɛk.sə.bəl/(UK) · /ˈflek.sɪ.bəl/
Definition of flexible
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
“When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.”
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adj
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Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
“When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.”
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Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
“Phocion the Athenian (a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people[…]”
“Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.”
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Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
“You can't always get what you want: you need to learn to be flexible.”
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Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
“a flexible language”
“This they foresaw was a Principle more flexible to their Purpose”
noun
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Something that is flexible.
“Alcan is mostly flexibles -- and so it boosts Amcor's flexible packaging business to a globally significant $7 billion one.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“to bend, curve”). Morphologically flex + -ible.
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