Be more flexible.
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Flexible
//ˈflek.sɪ.bəl//
Synonyms for "flexible" (193 found)
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Closest matches (39)
Strong matches (58)
Related words (96)
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Adjective(15 words)
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5 entriesSynonyms
12 entriesRelated terms
10 entriesderived
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
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2 entriesrelated to
15 entriessimilar
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
138 translations across 49 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- përthyeshëm adj (easily bent without breaking)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- εὐκαμπής adj (easily bent without breaking)
Arabic
1 entries- مَرِن adj (easy and compliant)
Armenian
3 entries- զիջող adj (easy and compliant)
- ճկուն adj (easily bent without breaking)
- ճկուն adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Asturian
1 entries- flexible adj (easily bent without breaking)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- yapığan adj (easily bent without breaking)
- əyilgən adj (easily bent without breaking)
Belarusian
4 entries- гну́ткі adj (easily bent without breaking)
- гі́бкі adj (easily bent without breaking)
- пада́тлівы adj (easy and compliant)
- рахма́ны adj (easy and compliant)
Bulgarian
3 entries- гъвкав adj (easily bent without breaking)
- податлив adj (easy and compliant)
- приспособяващ се adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Catalan
3 entries- flexible adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexible adj (easy and compliant)
- flexible adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏩᏂᎨ adj (easily bent without breaking)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 靈活 /灵活 adj (easily bent without breaking)
Czech
1 entries- ohebný adj (easily bent without breaking)
Danish
4 entries- fleksibel adj (easily bent without breaking)
- fleksibel adj (easy and compliant)
- føjelig adj (easy and compliant)
- smidig adj (easily bent without breaking)
Dutch
3 entries- buigzaam adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexibel adj (easy and compliant)
- flexibel adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Esperanto
4 entries- elasta (deformable) adj (easily bent without breaking)
- fleksebla adj (easy and compliant)
- fleksebla (bendable) adj (easily bent without breaking)
- fleksiĝema adj (easily bent without breaking)
Estonian
1 entries- paindlik adj (easily bent without breaking)
Finnish
4 entries- joustava adj (easily bent without breaking)
- joustava adj (easy and compliant)
- joustava adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
- kimmoisa adj (easily bent without breaking)
French
4 entries- flexible adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexible adj (easy and compliant)
- flexible adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
- maléable adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Galician
4 entries- flexible adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexíbel adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexíbel adj (easy and compliant)
- flexíbel adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Georgian
3 entries- დამყოლი adj (easy and compliant)
- დრეკადი adj (easily bent without breaking)
- მოქნილი adj (easily bent without breaking)
German
4 entries- biegsam adj (easily bent without breaking)
- dehnbar adj (easily bent without breaking)
- dehnbar adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
- elastisch adj (easily bent without breaking)
Greek
2 entries- ευέλικτος adj (easy and compliant)
- εύκαμπτος adj (easily bent without breaking)
Hebrew
1 entries- גמיש adj (easily bent without breaking)
Hindi
1 entries- लचीला adj (easily bent without breaking)
Hungarian
3 entries- alkalmazkodó adj (easy and compliant)
- hajlékony adj (easily bent without breaking)
- rugalmas adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Icelandic
3 entries- sveigjanlegur adj (easily bent without breaking)
- sveigjanlegur adj (easy and compliant)
- sveigjanlegur adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Ingrian
2 entries- nodra adj (easily bent without breaking)
- notkia adj (easily bent without breaking)
Irish
4 entries- aclaí adj (easily bent without breaking)
- aclaí adj (easy and compliant)
- solúbtha adj (easily bent without breaking)
- solúbtha adj (easy and compliant)
Italian
4 entries- flessibile adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flessibile adj (easy and compliant)
- flessibile adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
- pieghevole adj (easily bent without breaking)
Japanese
1 entries- 柔軟な adj (easily bent without breaking)
Khmer
2 entries- អាចបត់បែនបាន adj (easily bent without breaking)
- អាចបត់បែនបាន adj (easy and compliant)
Latin
3 entries- flexibilis adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexibilis adj (easy and compliant)
- flexilis adj (easily bent without breaking)
Manx
2 entries- so-lhoobey adj (easily bent without breaking)
- so-lhoobey adj (easy and compliant)
Māori
4 entries- kōngohe adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
- moruki adj (easily bent without breaking)
- ngāwari adj (easy and compliant)
- pīngore adj (easily bent without breaking)
Norwegian
1 entries- fleksibel adj (easily bent without breaking)
Occitan
1 entries- flexible adj (easily bent without breaking)
Odia
1 entries- ନମନୀୟ adj (easy and compliant)
Polish
4 entries- elastyczny adj (easily bent without breaking)
- elastyczny adj (easy and compliant)
- elastyczny adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
- gibki adj (easily bent without breaking)
Portuguese
3 entries- flexível adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexível adj (easy and compliant)
- flexível adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Romanian
1 entries- flexibil adj (easily bent without breaking)
Russian
4 entries- ги́бкий adj (easily bent without breaking)
- ги́бкий adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
- пода́тливый adj (easy and compliant)
- покла́дистый adj (easy and compliant)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- lùbach adj (easily bent without breaking)
Spanish
4 entries- doblegable adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexible adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexible adj (easy and compliant)
- flexible adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Swedish
2 entries- böjlig adj (easily bent without breaking)
- flexibel adj (easily bent without breaking)
Tagalog
1 entries- hutukin adj (easily bent without breaking)
Thai
2 entries- ยืดหยุ่น adj (easily bent without breaking)
- ยืดหยุ่น adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Turkish
4 entries- bükülgen adj (easily bent without breaking)
- bükülgen adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
- elastiki adj (easily bent without breaking)
- esnek adj (easily bent without breaking)
Ukrainian
4 entries- гну́чий adj (easily bent without breaking)
- гнучки́й adj (easily bent without breaking)
- ла́гідний adj (easy and compliant)
- покла́дливий adj (easy and compliant)
Vietnamese
4 entries- co dãn adj (easily bent without breaking)
- co giãn adj (easily bent without breaking)
- linh hoạt adj (easy and compliant)
- linh hoạt adj (capable or being adapted or molded)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The education system needs to be more flexible.
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You must be flexible in your thinking.
Source: tatoeba (241026)
My body is not so flexible as it used to be.
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