Synonyms for flexible
- adjective
Most common
pliable bendable pliant supple manageable tractable malleable compromising
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Pliable
pliable, bendable, pliant, supple, adaptable, soft, limber, elastic, easy, resilient, lithe, yielding, compliant, bendy informal, bending, limp, obsequious, lithesome, facile dated, buxom dated, bowable dated
2. Manageable — willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate
4. Compromising
Other
broad-minded, variable, flexile, inconstant, wavering, whippy, bendsome
Definitions
- adj. 1
Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
- adj. 2
Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
- adj. 3
Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- adj. 4
Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
You can't always get what you want: you need to learn to be flexible.
Related words
- Word family
- flexibleness flexitarian flexibility
- Phrases
- flexible sigmoidoscopy flexible time
Example sentences
- supple The author's language is vivid, supple and nuanced.
- pliable Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
- pliant We need fewer pliant journalists, not more.
By length
- 4 letters
- easy2, soft1, limp1
- 5 letters
- lithe1, bendy2, buxom2
- 6 letters
- supple2, docile2, facile2, limber2, pliant2, whippy
- 7 letters
- plastic2, bending2, elastic3, pliable3, ductile2, flexile, bowable
- 8 letters
- variable4, yielding2, wavering3, bendable, bendsome
- 9 letters
- resilient3, compliant3, adaptable4, malleable4, tractable3, lithesome
- 10 letters
- manageable4, obsequious4, inconstant
- 12 letters
- compromising4, conciliatory6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (easy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- flexible
- Deutsch
- schmiegsam