Definitions for flexible

flexible flex·i·ble

Spelling: [flek-suh-buh l]
IPA: /ˈflɛk sə bəl/

Flexible is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in flexible (beefillx).

Definitions for flexible

noun

  1. a flexible substance or material, as rubber or leather.

adjective

  1. capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent:
  2. susceptible of modification or adaptation; adaptable:
  3. willing or disposed to yield; pliable:

Origin of flexible

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin flexibilis pliant, easily bent. See flex1, -ible

Examples for flexible

The Assistant Commissioner had stood up also, slender and flexible.

She was very straight, very tall, and not at all flexible in face or figure.

And lo, Snowballs—underpants which can hold a flexible gel pack that you store in the freezer—was born.

Weisberg writes about the Europeans that were flexible enough to accept Fascism as the new reality.

She had a long, flexible white neck, and the pose of her head was charming.

But religions and ideologies are the opposite of flexible and compromising.

You know, perhaps, the sting of a flexible bamboo cane when it is whole.

Every part of the frame must be flexible, but perfectly ready for action.

Have a plan but be flexible and adjust to emerging realities.

This flexible attitude to national sovereignty is, of course, no recent phenomenon.

Word Value for flexible
Scrable

20

Words with friends

23

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