flexible

flexible is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 23 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
2. adjective. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
3. adjective. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
4. adjective. bending and snapping back readily without breaking

   Synonyms: whippy

5. adjective. able to flex; able to bend easily

   "slim flexible birches"

   Synonyms: flexile

6. adjective. capable of being changed

   "flexible schedules"

7. adjective. making or willing to make concessions

   "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"

   Synonyms: compromising, conciliatory

8. adjective. able to adjust readily to different conditions

   "an adaptable person"

   "a flexible personality"

   Synonyms: elastic, pliable, pliant

Synonyms

whippy, flexile, compromising, conciliatory, elastic, pliable, pliant

Common word forms

flexibleness

Words from these letters

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