flexile

American  

[flek-sil, -sahyl] / ˈflɛk sɪl, -saɪl /

adjective

1. flexible; pliant; tractable; adaptable.

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Other Word Forms

• flexility noun

Etymology

Origin of flexile

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

Example Sentences

As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.

From The Husbands of Edith by McCutcheon, George Barr

One is an admirable imitation of Indian corn in tassel, the silky fibres as fine and flexile as can be imagined; another is a group of ostrich plumes, so downy that a zephyr waves it.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

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

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

“Nor long the term, an hour's short space elaps'd, “When the same teinted flower the blood produc'd: “Such flowers the deep pomegranate bears, which hides “Its purple grains beneath a flexile rind.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

The purple clematis, twisting its flexile branches with those of the pale woodbine, formed a sweet and fragrant canopy to the arched bower, while the flowery tendrils hung down on all sides.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah