Sekirov Dictionary

flexible

/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/

adjective 4
noun 1
forms 3

adjective4

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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. — 1602
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Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
- You can't always get what you want: you need to learn to be flexible.
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Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
- This they foresaw was a Principle more flexible to their Purpose — 1735
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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[…] — 1625

noun1

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Something that is flexible.
- Alcan is mostly flexibles -- and so it boosts Amcor's flexible packaging business to a globally significant $7 billion one. — 2009

forms

flexibles · more flexible · most flexible

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