flexible Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective capable of being changed
- flexible schedules
adjective able to flex; able to bend easily
flexile.
- slim flexible birches
adjective satellite able to adjust readily to different conditions
pliant; pliable; elastic.
- an adaptable person
- a flexible personality
- an elastic clause in a contract
adjective satellite bending and snapping back readily without breaking
whippy.
adjective making or willing to make concessions
compromising; conciliatory.
- loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet

L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.

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.
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.
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.