Synonyms for flexible
ˈflɛk sə bəlflex·i·ble

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1. flexible

   Synonyms:
   pliant, lithe, supple, elastic, easy, indulgent, ductile, flexile, yielding, pliable

   Antonyms:
   tough, rigid, inelastic, inflexible, hard, inexorable

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1. flexibleadjective

   capable of being changed

   "flexible schedules"

   Synonyms:
   compromising, flexile, whippy, elastic, pliant, pliable, conciliatory

   Antonyms:
   unadaptable, adamantine, stiff, inexorable, rock-ribbed, adamant, inelastic, ossified, ironclad, intransigent, die-hard(a), fossilised, hard-core, inflexible, muscle-bound, rigid, brassbound, semirigid, fossilized

2. flexible, flexileadjective

   able to flex; able to bend easily

   "slim flexible birches"

   Synonyms:
   conciliatory, elastic, pliant, compromising, whippy, flexile, pliable

   Antonyms:
   muscle-bound, ossified, fossilised, inelastic, stiff, semirigid, fossilized, inflexible, brassbound, adamant, ironclad, intransigent, rock-ribbed, adamantine, rigid, unadaptable, inexorable, hard-core, die-hard(a)

3. elastic, flexible, pliable, pliantadjective

   able to adjust readily to different conditions

   "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"

   Synonyms:
   conciliatory, bendable, tractile, waxy, elastic, pliant, ductile, compromising, tensile, whippy, malleable, flexile, fictile, plastic, pliable

   Antonyms:
   inflexible, ironclad, hard-core, fossilised, semirigid, unadaptable, rock-ribbed, intransigent, rigid, die-hard(a), stiff, adamant, brassbound, ossified, muscle-bound, adamantine, inelastic, fossilized, inexorable

4. flexible, whippyadjective

   bending and snapping back readily without breaking

   Synonyms:
   conciliatory, elastic, pliant, compromising, whippy, flexile, pliable

   Antonyms:
   fossilized, inelastic, adamantine, intransigent, inexorable, rock-ribbed, unadaptable, brassbound, fossilised, muscle-bound, inflexible, rigid, ossified, stiff, semirigid, die-hard(a), adamant, ironclad, hard-core

5. compromising, conciliatory, flexibleadjective

   making or willing to make concessions

   "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"

   Synonyms:
   conciliatory, conciliative, whippy, elastic, pliant, compromising, flexile, pliable

   Antonyms:
   fossilised, semirigid, rock-ribbed, intransigent, adamant, inflexible, muscle-bound, brassbound, ossified, ironclad, fossilized, stiff, inelastic, inexorable, adamantine, unadaptable, hard-core, rigid, die-hard(a)

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1. yieldable

   Submitted by rinat on September 16, 2019  

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1. flexibleadjective

   Synonyms:
   pliable, pliant, limber, lithe, supple, not stiff, not rigid, easily bent

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1. flexibleadjective

   Synonyms:
   pliable, supple, flexile, pliant, lithe, limber, compliant, yielding

   Antonyms:
   inflexible, incompliant

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1. List of paraphrases for "flexible":

   flexibility, flex, flexibly, adaptable, responsive, flexible, agile, soft, pliable, versatile, resilient, nimble, supple, adaptive, floppy, smooth

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1. flexible

   Synonyms:
   Flexile

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1. Rich Elliott:

   You just don't know how many extra doses, so you have to have this flexible pool of people sort of waiting in the wings on 10 minutes notice to get the vaccine, we did it with teachers.

2. Chris Soules:

   Bachelor i think I need to do some yoga because watching those people and some of the stuff they do...I'm not a very flexible guy, so I am going to need to get limbered up if that's going to happen!

3. Lori Meyers:

   The whole idea of flexible math lanes/grouping is that teachers can provide much better differentiated learning for their students when they have a more narrow range of students to teach, even within a lane, teachers must differentiate. No class is entirely uniform. With laning, teachers have a more narrow range of student proficiency to address, allowing them to go into much more conceptual depth.

4. Stephen Barclay:

   It is now for the EU to respond and also show they can be creative and flexible. This sets out the broad landing zone.

5. Adam Glazer:

   We will be much more tolerant and flexible about specific requests to work remotely, we aren't ruling out the idea that it may be appropriate for certain people to work remotely on certain occasions. We are anxious, though, to regain a pre-pandemic sense of operations allowing for certain adjustments.