flexible
/flexible/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Capable of bending easily without breaking: Describes a physical object or material that can be bent or flexed without damage.
- Able to adjust readily to different conditions; adaptable: Describes a person, plan, or system that can change or be changed easily to suit new situations.
- Willing to compromise or make concessions: Describes an attitude or approach that is not rigid or stubborn.
Examples of Usage
- Physical Property:
- Adaptability:
- Willingness to Compromise:
Advanced Usage
- "Flexible friend" (British English, informal, dated): A humorous or euphemistic term for a credit card.
- In a technical or formal context: Used to describe systems, rules, or materials designed for adaptability.
Variants and Related Words
- Flexibility (noun): The quality of being flexible.
- Flexibly (adverb): In a flexible manner.
- Inflexible (adjective): The opposite of flexible; rigid.
Synonyms
- Pliable: Easily bent or shaped (often for materials).
- Adaptable: Able to adjust to new conditions.
- Elastic: Able to resume its original shape after being stretched or compressed.
- Acquiescent: Willing to accept something without protest.
Related Phrases
- To remain flexible: To keep an open and adaptable approach.
- Flexible approach/mindset: An adaptable way of thinking or working.
Related Idioms
- Bend over backwards: To try extremely hard to be helpful or accommodating (shows a form of flexibility in attitude).
- Go with the flow: To be relaxed and accept a situation as it develops, without trying to control it.
Adjective
- making or willing to make concessions
- loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet
- bending and snapping back readily without breaking
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
- an adaptable person
- a flexible personality
- an elastic clause in a contract
- able to flex; able to bend easily
- slim flexible birches
- capable of being changed
- flexible schedules