Synonyms:
flexible
Meaning: capable of being changed; "flexible schedules"
Synonyms:
flexible, flexile
Meaning: able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches"
Synonyms:
elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant
Meaning: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
Synonyms:
flexible, whippy
Meaning: bending and snapping back readily without breaking
Usage examples
The Assistant Commissioner had stood up also, slender and flexible.
The nuggets flattened to a yellow leaf as fine and flexible as silk.
The lips also must be made flexible, to aid in the moulding of clear and beautiful tones.
It must be free and flexible for the moulding of tone, and to let the tone pass out unobstructed.
In an instant there came a marvellous change. He saw the stone melt, and begin to grow flexible and soft.
The limbs were so slender and flexible that a touch was enough to bend back a green gate fifteen to twenty feet long, and Billy often pushed a branch aside with his nose.
The length of hose--made of some linen-like fabric of tough, shredded sea-weed and covered with a flexible metal sheath--was cut into three pieces each about fifty yards long.
The degrees of scholastick, as of military punishment, no stated rules can ascertain. It must be enforced till it overpowers temptation; till stubbornness becomes flexible, and perverseness regular.
"That'll crack a skull, but it won't draw blood--not if it's used right," and he brought from his hip pocket one of the weapons in question--a short, stout flexible reed, covered with leather, the end forming a pocket in which was a chunk of lead.
We are informed in the usual style of such pages, that "the well-dressed woman has begun to consider the little smoking-jacket indispensable." This jacket, we are told "is a very different matter to the braided velvet coats which were donned by our masculine forbears in the days of long drooping cavalry moustaches, tightly buttoned frock-coats, and flexible canes.