Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: flexible
IPA transcription: [fl'ɛksəbəl]
Pronunciations of flexible
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adverb meaning of the word
  • 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.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Benjamin Franklin, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Glasses, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Markup language, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Robert Garran, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Octavia E. Butler, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Tawny owl, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jim Henson, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Zinc, License CC BY-SA 4.0