Usually means: Flexible, bending easily without breaking.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. supple: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. supple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. supple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. supple: Collins English Dictionary
  5. supple: Vocabulary.com
  6. Supple, supple: Wordnik
  7. supple: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Supple, supple: Wiktionary
  9. supple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. supple: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. supple: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. supple: Dictionary.com
  13. supple: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. supple: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Supple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. supple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. supple: Rhymezone
  18. supple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. supple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. supple: Free Dictionary
  21. supple: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. supple: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. supple: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. supple: Legal dictionary
  2. supple: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supple: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Supple: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. supple: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supple: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SUPPLE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Supple: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See suppled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
adjective:  Lithe and agile when moving and bending.
adjective:  (figuratively) Compliant; yielding to the will of others.
adjective:  (oenology) Smooth and drinkable.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make or become supple.
verb:  (transitive) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
noun:  A surname.

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