Definitions for flexile

flexile flex·ile

Spelling: [flek-sil or, esp. British, -sahyl]
IPA: /ˈflɛk sɪl or, esp. British, -saɪl/

Flexile is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in flexile (eefillx).

Definitions for flexile

adjective

  1. flexible; pliant; tractable; adaptable.

Origin of flexile

First recorded in 1625-35, flexile is from the Latin word flexilis pliant, pliable. See flex1, -ile

Examples for flexile

From their flexile and unformed minds I can carve out my fittest tools.

A powerful charm came from her superb physique, her radiant color, and from her beautiful, flexile lips and sound white teeth.

He lay in the Englishwoman's gentle arms—a little brown bundle of flexile limbs and cotton night-shirt.

Eudora had more sparkling eyes, lips more richly coloured, and a form more slender and flexile.

The flexile and dubious expression of youth was forever gone.

The willow leaflets were just putting out, and the swaying of the flexile boughs was slight and noiseless.

She stood no more than a pace from him, a flexile figure that poised and swung, to provoke the wild beast in him to spring.

flexile -is: capable of being bent at an angle without breaking: flexible.

On the former supposition, the ovipositor must be remarkably long and flexile to enable the animal to place the eggs on its back.

The movement, in its sinuous, flexile gliding, resembled somewhat a serpent's crawl.

Word Value for flexile
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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