flexible

From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“I bend, curve”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/, /ˈflɛk.sə.bəl/

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flexible (comparative more flexible, superlative most flexible)

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

   Synonym: pliable

   Antonyms: stiff, brittle, inflexible

   When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. -William Shakespeare

2. Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.

   Synonyms: tractable, manageable, ductile

   Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. - Francis Bacon.

   Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. - William Shakespeare

3. Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.

   Synonyms: plastic, malleable

   a flexible language

   This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. -Rogers.

• flexibly
• flexibleness

• flexibility
• inflexible

• foldable

flexible (plural flexibles)

1. (chiefly engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible.
   • 2009 August 19, Terry McCrann, “Win-win deal for the times”, in Herald Sun‎:

     Alcan is mostly flexibles -- and so it boosts Amcor's flexible packaging business to a globally significant $7 billion one.

• flexible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• flexible on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• flexibility on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Latin flexibilis.

flexible (epicene, plural flexibles)

1. flexible

   Antonym: inflexible

• flexibilidá

Borrowed from Latin flexibilis.

flexible (masculine and feminine plural flexibles)

1. flexible

   Antonym: inflexible

• flexibilitat

• “flexible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flexible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “flexible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flexible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin flexibilis.

• IPA^(key): /flɛk.sibl/

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• Homophone: flexibles
• Hyphenation: flex‧sible

flexible (plural flexibles)

1. flexible

• flexiblement
• inflexible

• flexibilité

• “flexible” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• flexíbel

Borrowed from Latin flexibilis.

flexible m or f (plural flexibles)

1. flexible

• inflexible, inflexíbel

• flexibilidade

• “flexible” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

flexible

1. inflected form of flexibel

Borrowed from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“I bend, curve”).

• IPA^(key): /flekˈsi.βle/

flexible (plural flexibles)

1. flexible (clarification of this definition is needed)

• inflexible

• flexibilidad
• flexión
• flexionar

• “flexible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.