flexiblea.[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.()When the splitting wind
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. (Shak.)2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.()Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. (Bacon.)Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. (Shak.)3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.()This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. (Rogers.)()()