flexible

Definition

Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.

Etymology

From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“I bend, curve”). Morphologically flex + -ible.

Example Sentences

• "When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks."
• "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."

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