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Antonyms for supple
ˈsʌp əlsup·ple
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term supple.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
supple
Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.
Antonyms:
dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupidSynonyms:
active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, diligent, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, vigorous, wide awakePreposition:
Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
supple
Antonyms:
firm, unbending, unyielding, stiff, stubborn, inflexible, inelastic, independent, self-assertive, superciliousSynonyms:
pliant, bending, yielding, flexible, elastic, servile, fawning, cringing, adulatory, sycophantic, lithe, limber, compliant
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Princeton's WordNet
lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlikeadjective
moving and bending with ease
Antonyms:
awkward, inflexibleSynonyms:
refined, svelte, slender, lithesome, lissom, limber, slight, polished, lithe, urbane, thin, slim, sylphlike, lissomelimber, suppleadjective
(used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
"a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
Antonyms:
inflexible, awkwardSynonyms:
slender, lithesome, lissom, limber, sylphlike, lithe, svelte, lissomelimber, suppleverb
(used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
Antonyms:
awkward, inflexibleSynonyms:
slender, lithesome, lissom, limber, sylphlike, lithe, svelte, lissomesuppleverb
make pliant and flexible
"These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
Antonyms:
inflexible, awkward
How to use supple in a sentence?
Bathing Culture is my go-to for a delicious, certified organic, biodegradable body wash that smells divine and leaves my skin supple and smooth, i stock up on the gallon jug about every nine months or so to refill my glass pump bottle, which is way more convenient than forgetting to order body wash at the last minute and panic buying something random from a bodega.
The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed ‘scientifically’ through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.
This is a regime that is very supple politically. They’re very smart.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1264 | independent | |
#1854 | firm | |
#2145 | heavy | |
#2901 | slow | |
#4205 | quiet | |
#4775 | stupid | |
#9013 | idle | |
#9125 | lazy | |
#10506 | inactive | |
#12588 | stiff | |
#13293 | dull | |
#17452 | awkward | |
#24054 | stubborn | |
#27289 | inert | |
#29634 | supple | |
#29806 | sluggish | |
#41985 | inelastic | |
#42074 | inflexible | |
#51881 | quiescent | |
#77553 | unyielding | |
#80300 | indolent | |
#151198 | unbending | |
#166887 | supercilious |
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