How to Spell flexible
flexible
flexible - adjective
- Capable of being flexed : pliant
- Yielding to influence : tractable
- Characterized by a ready capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"flexible branches swaying in the breeze"
Usage examples
Examples: "The weather is very flexible today." "That looks flexible to me." "I feel flexible about this."
Etymology
Middle English, borrowed from Latin flexibilis, from flexus (past participle of flectere "to cause to go in a different direction, bend, curve," of uncertain origin) + -ibilis -ible
Word family
flex, flexibility
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