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flexible adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin flexibilis, formed as FLEX verb + -IBLE.]
A. adjective.
Orig., able to be inclined or made favourable to. Now, willing or disposed to yield to influence or persuasion; able to be guided or easily led; manageable. LME.
Shakespeare 3 Henry VI Women are soft, mild,..and flexible.
Able to be bent; admitting of change in figure without breaking; yielding to pressure, pliable, pliant. LME.
Aldous Huxley Mitsima rolled out another piece of clay into a long flexible cylinder. Anthony Huxley Flexible garage doors composed of metal strips.
Of a fluid: not rigid, yielding. Of a wind: variable in direction, shifting. Only in 17.
Able to be modified or adapted to various purposes or uses; supple; versatile. M17.
flexible response a strategy based on a spectrum of possible military responses to any threat.
Sydney Smith Some have been selected for flexible politics. Lytton His voice was so deep and flexible. M. Hunter So variable are the uses of language, so infinitely flexible their application.
b. noun. = FLEX noun2. L19.
flexibleness noun (now rare) = FLEXIBILITY E17.
flexibly adverb E17.