flexile

[ flek-silor, especially British, -sahyl ]

adjective

1. flexible; pliant; tractable; adaptable.

Other Words From

• flex·ili·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of flexile¹

First recorded in 1625–35, flexile is from the Latin word flexilis pliant, pliable. See flex ¹, -ile

Example Sentences

Staminate catkins.—Two to ten inches long, consisting of a flexile chain of funnel-form bracts, depending one from another; each having six flowers like clappers.

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But chief at sea, whose every flexile wave Obeys the blast, the aerial tumult swells.

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But Claire's figure was of such supple and flexile slenderness that the weight and volume of this apparel made her light step and airy contour win a new charm and a new vivacity.

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As they gathered their soft dresses about their limbs and stooped to enter the door, the flexile line of waist and hip and thigh came out beautifully, modestly.

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She stood no more than a pace from him, a flexile figure that poised and swung, to provoke the wild beast in him to spring.

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