Usually means: Able to adapt or bend.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. flexible: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flexible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flexible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flexible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flexible: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flexible, flexible: Wordnik
  7. flexible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flexible: Wiktionary
  9. flexible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flexible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flexible: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flexible: Dictionary.com
  13. flexible: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flexible: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flexible (disambiguation), Flexible: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flexible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flexible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flexible: Rhymezone
  19. flexible, flexible, flexible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flexible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flexible: Free Dictionary
  22. flexible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. flexible: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. flexible: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. flexible: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flexible: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. flexible: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. flexible: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flexible: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
adjective:  Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
adjective:  Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
adjective:  Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
noun:  (chiefly engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible.

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