flexible

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   capable of being changed

   flexible schedules

2. 2
   adj

   Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.

   When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.

3. 3
   adj

   Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.

   Phocion the Athenian (a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people[…]

4. 4
   adj

   Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.

   You can't always get what you want: you need to learn to be flexible.

5. 5
   adj

   Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.

   a flexible language

6. 6
   noun

   Something that is flexible.

   Alcan is mostly flexibles -- and so it boosts Amcor's flexible packaging business to a globally significant $7 billion one.

7. 7
   adj

   bending and snapping back readily without breaking

8. 8
   adj

   able to flex

Etymology

From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“to bend, curve”). Morphologically flex + -ible.