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Definition of Flexible
1. Adjective. Capable of being changed. "Flexible schedules"
Derivative terms: Flexibleness
Antonyms: Inflexible
2. Adjective. Able to flex; able to bend easily. "Slim flexible birches"
Also: Elastic
Similar to: Bendable, Pliable, Pliant, Waxy, Double-jointed, Limber, Supple, Limber, Spinnable, Spinnbar, Stretched
Derivative terms: Flex, Flexibility, Flexibleness
Antonyms: Inflexible
3. Adjective. Able to adjust readily to different conditions. "An elastic clause in a contract"
Similar to: Adaptable
Derivative terms: Flexibility, Flexibleness, Pliability, Pliancy, Pliantness
4. Adjective. Bending and snapping back readily without breaking.
5. Adjective. Making or willing to make concessions. "Loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
Similar to: Yielding
Antonyms: Uncompromising
Derivative terms: Conciliate, Flexibility, Flexibleness
Definition of Flexible
1. a. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
Definition of Flexible
1. Adjective. Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; not stiff or brittle. ¹
2. Adjective. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. ¹
3. Adjective. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. ¹
4. Noun. (chiefly engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flexible
1. capable of being bent [adj] : FLEXIBLY [adv]
Medical Definition of Flexible
1. 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) Synonym: Pliant, pliable, supple, tractable, manageable, ductile, obsequious, inconstant, wavering. Flex"ibleness, Flex"ibly. Origin: L. Flexibilis: cf. F. Flexible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flexible
Literary usage of Flexible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Design and Analysis of Integrated Manufacturing Systems by W. Dale Compton (1988)
"ABSTRACT flexible manufacturing offers productivity, affordability, and enhanced
quality. Yet the far-reaching benefits are by no means automatic. ..."
2. Analytical Mechanics for Engineers by Fred B. Seely, Newton Edward Ensign (1921)
"flexible Cables.—In the following two articles the equilibrium of ... A cable is
said to be perfectly flexible when it can offer no resistance to bending. ..."
3. NATO's Future: Toward a New Transatlantic Bargain by Stanley R. Sloan (1995)
"STRATEGY OF flexible RESPONSE The basis of this concept is that NATO should be
able to deter, and if necessary, to counter military aggression of varying ..."
4. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"flexible is used in a natural or moral sense; pliable, in the familiar sense only;
... A temper is flexible which yields to the entreaties of others; ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
""It is in the case of the flexible stethoscope that the hydrophone forms a material
aid in auscultation by hearing-tubes. The flexible stethoscope is here ..."
6. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1891)
"A NO VEL FORM OF flexible TUBING. ... IT seemed to me at first rather a wild kind
of an idea to make a metallic tube which would be quite flexible, ..."
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