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Flexible

adjective

Capable of being changed.

Able to flex; able to bend easily. Synonym: flexile.

Able to adjust readily to different conditions. Synonyms: elastic, pliable, pliant. "A flexible personality" , "An elastic clause in a contract"

Bending and snapping back readily without breaking. Synonym: whippy.

Making or willing to make concessions. Synonyms: compromising, conciliatory.

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... Campbell's conclusion that he had not "minded" giving up college. This man had given up much and felt it deeply; but he had outlived the pain and the blessing of sacrifice had come to him. His voice was very melodious and beautiful, and the brown hand he held out to me was peculiarly long and shapely and flexible. ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... "long runs." Shakespearean actors should drink deep of the Pierian spring. They should be graduates in Shakespeare's university; and, unlike graduates of other universities, they should master not merely formal knowledge, but a flexible ...

— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee

... society Cervantes in his great classic revealed to seventeenth-century Europe. Richardson and Fielding and Sterne in their turn, as great realists and impressionists, proved to the eighteenth century that the novel is as flexible as life itself. And from their days to the days of Henry James the form of the novel has been adapted by European genius to the exact needs, outlook, and attitude to life of each successive generation. To ...

— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... apparent that here nothing of interest was to be found. Beyond the stacks of props and wagons there was literally nothing except a rusty steam winch, a large water butt into which was led the down spout from the roof, a tank raised on a stand and fitted with a flexible pipe, evidently for supplying crude oil for the ship's engines, and a number of empty barrels in which the oil had been delivered. With their torch carefully screened by the black cloth the friends examined these objects, particularly the oil tank which, forming ...

— The Pit Prop Syndicate • Freeman Wills Crofts

... again, till I ceased to see That flexible form, that nebulous white; And she who was more than my life to me Had ...

— Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy

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