Word Meanings - FLEXILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. Wordsworth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLEXILE)

• Flexible
• Pliant
• lithe
• supple
• elastic
• easy
• indulgent
• ductile
• flexile
• yielding
• pliable

Related words: (words related to FLEXILE)

• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• LITHERLY
  Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. He was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• PLIABLE
  1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• SUPPLELY
  In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.
• DUCTILE
  1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold
• LITHENESS
  The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
• LITHER
  Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton. Note: Professor Skeat thinks " the lither sky" as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. means the stagnant or pestilential sky. -- Li"ther*ly,
• INDULGENTLY
  In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• ELASTIC
  1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• SUPPLENESS
  The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
• FLEXIBLE
  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
• LITHELY
  In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.
• ELASTICITY
  1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc;
• LITHESOME
  Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom. -- Lithe"some*ness, n.
• ELASTICALLY
  In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
• SUPPLETORY
  That which is to supply what is wanted. Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man. Jer. Taylor.
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• UNELASTICITY
  Inelasticity.
• UNFLEXIBLE
  Inflexible.
• COMPLIABLE
  Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
• INFLEXIBLE
  1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
• BLITHELY
  In a blithe manner.
• COMPLIANT
  Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.
• BLITHENESS
  The state of being blithe. Chaucer.
• INELASTICITY
  Want of elasticity.