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51suppleness — supple ► ADJECTIVE (suppler, supplest) ▪ flexible or pliant. DERIVATIVES suppleness noun. ORIGIN Latin supplex submissive …
52flexible — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. pliant, limber, lithe, supple; adaptable. See softness, elasticity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Pliant] Syn. limber, lithe, supple, willowy, plastic, elastic, bending, springy, malleable, ductile,… …
53sup´ple|ness — sup|ple «SUHP uhl», adjective, pler, plest, verb, pled, pling. –adj. 1. bending or folding easily, without breaking or cracking; pliant: »a supple birch tree, supple leather. SYNONYM(S): pliable. 2. capable of bending easily; moving easily or… …
54sup´ple|ly — sup|ple «SUHP uhl», adjective, pler, plest, verb, pled, pling. –adj. 1. bending or folding easily, without breaking or cracking; pliant: »a supple birch tree, supple leather. SYNONYM(S): pliable. 2. capable of bending easily; moving easily or… …
55sup|ple — «SUHP uhl», adjective, pler, plest, verb, pled, pling. –adj. 1. bending or folding easily, without breaking or cracking; pliant: »a supple birch tree, supple leather. SYNONYM(S): pliable. 2. capable of bending easily; moving easily or nimbly: » …
56elastic — adj 1 Elastic, resilient, springy, flexible, supple are comparable when they mean able to endure strain (as extension, compression, twisting, or bending) without being permanently affected or injured. Elastic and resilient are both general and… …
57Leather — For other uses, see Leather (disambiguation). Modern leather working tools Leather is a durable and flexible material created via the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, primarily cattlehide. It can be produced through different… …
58pliable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. plastic, ductile, malleable; flexible, supple, limber, yielding; docile, tractable, obedient, compliant. See softness, obedience. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Flexible] Syn. flexible, pliant, plastic …
59plastic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. moldable, malleable, ductile, formable, pliant, impressionable, formative. See form, softness. n. thermoplastic, resin, cellulose, etc.; plastic money, credit, debit, or charge card. See materials,… …
60pliant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. pliable, supple, flexible, malleable, compliant, yielding. See softness, obedience. Ant., unyielding, rigid. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Yielding under influence] Syn. tractable, yielding, pliable;… …
