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flexibleness
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Flexibleness
(gcide) | Flexible \Flex"i*ble\, a. [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.]
1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being
turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable;
yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
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When the splitting wind
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. --Shak.
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2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not
invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;
ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
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Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways
flexible to the will of the people. --Bacon.
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Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
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3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a
flexible language.
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This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
--Rogers.
Syn: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile;
obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- Flex"i*ble*ness,
n. -- Flex"i*bly, adv.
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flexibleness
(wn) | flexibleness
n 1: the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped [syn:
flexibility, flexibleness] [ant: inflexibility,
inflexibleness]
2: the quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the
flexibility of his working arrangement" [syn: flexibility,
flexibleness] [ant: inflexibility, rigidity,
rigidness] |
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inflexibleness
(encz) | inflexibleness, n: |
Flexibleness
(gcide) | Flexible \Flex"i*ble\, a. [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.]
1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being
turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable;
yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
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When the splitting wind
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. --Shak.
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2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not
invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;
ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
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Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways
flexible to the will of the people. --Bacon.
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Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
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3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a
flexible language.
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This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
--Rogers.
Syn: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile;
obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- Flex"i*ble*ness,
n. -- Flex"i*bly, adv.
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Inflexibleness
(gcide) | Inflexibleness \In*flex"i*ble*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility;
rigidity; firmness.
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inflexibleness
(wn) | inflexibleness
n 1: a lack of physical flexibility [syn: inflexibility,
inflexibleness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness] |
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