adjective
- Capable of being changed.
- usage: "flexible schedules"
- Able to flex; able to bend easily.
- usage: "slim flexible birches"
- synonyms: flexile
- Able to adjust readily to different conditions.
- usage: "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
- Bending and snapping back readily without breaking.
- synonyms: whippy
- Making or willing to make concessions.
- usage: "loneliness tore through him... Whenever he thought of... Even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
- synonyms: compromising, conciliatory
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