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Flexible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may be bent; capable of being turned or forced from a straight line or form without breaking; pliant; yielding to pressure; not stiff; as a flexible rod; a flexible plant.

2. Capable of yielding to intreaties, arguments or other moral force; that may be persuaded to compliance; not invincibly rigid; or obstinate; not inexorable.

3. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people.

4. It often denotes, easy or too easy to yield or comply; wavering; inconstant; not firm.

5. Ductile; manageable; tractable; as the tender and flexible minds of youth. flexible years or time of life, the time when the mind is tractable.

6. That may be turned or accommodated.

7. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.

Flexible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.

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

3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.

Flexibleness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Possibility to be bent or turned from a straight line or form without breaking; easiness to be bent; pliantness; pliancy; flexibility.

2. Facility of mind; readiness to comply or yield; obsequiousness; as the flexibleness of a courtier.