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Adjective: flexible  flek-su-bul
  1. Capable of being changed
    "flexible schedules"
     
  2. Able to flex; able to bend easily
    "slim flexible birches"
    - flexile
     
  3. Able to adjust readily to different conditions
    "a flexible personality"
    - elastic, pliable, pliant
     
  4. Bending and snapping back readily without breaking
    - whippy
     
  5. Making or willing to make concessions
    "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the flexible Louis du Tillet"
    - compromising, conciliatory

See also: adaptable, bendable, double-jointed, elastic, flex, flexibility, flexibleness, flexibly, limber, negotiable, on the table, pliable, pliant, spinnable, spinnbar, stretched, supple, waxy, yielding

Antonym: inflexible

Encyclopedia: Flexible