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  1. adjective Capable of being bent or flexed; pliable.
  2. adjective Capable of being bent repeatedly without injury or damage.
  3. adjective Susceptible to influence or persuasion; tractable.

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  • The depth was not excessive for diving work Doc ran to a locker which held diving equipment--flexible, mail-armored suits and some of the transparent hoods which vaguely resembled goldfish bowls. —  020 - Death In Silver
  • It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API. —  Blah, Blah! Technology
  • InSO's sexual health telesales service is one of the most effective, flexible, and efficient services in the industry. —  BeanRocket Blog Communities Lastest Posts
  • Only as the flexible, bamboo-like rod in Delkin's grip came down with a searing crack on the back of his hand, Rodney remembered at least one other time when John had been right and he'd been seriously wrong and the consequences of that error had resulted in the near-destruction of a solar system. —  Wraithbait
  • It is the most flexible, allowing separate objects to handle the undo and redo operations, and also allowing different arguments to be supplied to each of those two methods. —  The Code Project Latest Articles
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin flexibilis, from flexus, past participle of flectere, to bend.

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  1. = French flexible = Spanish flexible = Portuguese flexivel = Italian flessibile, from Latin flexibilis, that may be bent, pliant, flexible, from flexus, past participle of flectere, bend: see flex.
 

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/ˈflɛksɪbl/
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