flexible : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flexible	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for flexible
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flexible adj capable of being changed; "flexible schedules" [ant: inflexible] able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches" Synonym(s): flexible, flexile Antonym(s): inflexible able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract" Synonym(s): elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant bending and snapping back readily without breaking Synonym(s): flexible, whippy making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" Synonym(s): compromising, conciliatory, flexible Antonym(s): inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flexible \Flex"ible\, 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"ibleness}, n. -- {Flex"i*bly}, adv.