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Flex·i·ble 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.
Syn: -- Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile; obsequious; inconstant; wavering.
-- Flex*i*ble*ness, n. -- Flex*i*bly, adv.
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flexibly
adv : with flexibility; "`Come whenever you are free,' he said
flexibly" [ant: inflexibly]