\Flex"i*ble\, a. [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.
Syn: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile;
     obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- {Flex"i*ble*ness},
     n. -- {Flex"i*bly}, adv.