OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 12715

flexible

/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
doblegable • flexible
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.
flexible
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.
flexible
Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
This they foresaw was a Principle more flexible to their Purpose
a flexible language