Flexible

a.	1.	Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. - Shak.
	2.	Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. - Bacon. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. - Shak.
	3.	Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. - Rogers.

Adj.	1.	flexible - extended meanings; capable of change; "a flexible character"; "flexible schedules" Antonyms: inflexible - extended meanings; incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose"
	2.	flexible - able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches" Synonyms: flexile Antonyms: inflexible - literal meanings; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade"
	3.	flexible - able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract" Synonyms: elastic, pliable, pliant
	4.	flexible - bending and snapping back readily without breaking
	5.	flexible - making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" Synonyms: compromising, conciliatory

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