[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flexible \flex"ible\, a. l. flexibilis: cf. f. 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.
      1913 webster

            when the splitting wind
            makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not
      invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;
      ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
      1913 webster

            phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways
            flexible to the will of the people.   --bacon.
      1913 webster

            women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a
      flexible language.
      1913 webster

            this was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
                                                  --rogers.

   syn: pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile;
        obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- flex"ibleness,
        n. -- flex"ibly, adv.
        1913 webster
see also:
flex"ibleness flex"ibly 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

flexible
     adj 1: extended meanings; capable of change; "a flexible
            character"; "flexible schedules" ant: inflexible
     2: able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches"
        syn: flexile ant: inflexible
     3: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an
        adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic
        clause in a contract" syn: elastic, pliable, pliant
     4: bending and snapping back readily without breaking
     5: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore
        through him...whenever he thought of...even the
        compromising louis du tillet" syn: compromising, conciliatory
        ant: uncompromising
see also:
inflexible flexile elastic pliable pliant compromising 
conciliatory uncompromising 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

129 moby thesaurus words for "flexible":
   able to adapt, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable,
   all-around, alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, amenable,
   amphibious, bendable, bending, biddable, bouncy, buoyant,
   changeable, checkered, complaisant, compliant, conformable,
   convenient, cooperative, creased, crimped, docile, dog-eared,
   doubled, ductile, easy, elastic, ever-changing, extensible,
   extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexile,
   flexuous, flounced, fluid, fluted, foldable, folded, folding,
   foolproof, formable, formative, gathered, generally capable,
   giving, handy, impermanent, impressible, impressionable,
   kaleidoscopic, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
   lively, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, many-sided,
   metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moldable, movable, mutable,
   nonuniform, obedient, other-directed, permutable, persuadable,
   persuasible, plaited, plastic, pleated, pliable, pliant, plicate,
   plicated, plicatile, practical, protean, proteiform, quilled,
   receptive, resilient, resourceful, responsive, rubbery, ruffled,
   sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, stretch, stretchable,
   stretchy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tensile, tractable,
   tractile, transient, transitory, tucked, twilled, two-handed,
   unaustere, undemanding, unexacting, unharsh, unsevere, unstrict,
   untroublesome, variable, versatile, whippy, wieldable, wieldy,
   willowy, yielding

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