flexible
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˈflɛksəbl/
- All students are better served when instruction is flexible and there are options for learning and responding.
- a flexible schedule
- flexible scheduling
- flexible working
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Watch on YouTubeBe stubborn on vision, but flexible on the details.
- Be stubborn on vision, but flexible on the details.
- to reward your brain for being flexible and for trying to help you.
- Let me create a plan that's focused but flexible because I'm not you.
- And, and yeah, the, the, the hour is a flexible unit, as you've said.
- The dance between remaining flexible and enforcing your boundaries.
- And then you may need to be flexible in how you look it up.
- And if anything, it's just made me more flexible to towards change.
- Why is this person never able to be flexible within that time?
- And this is from Barclays and these are flexible fixed rate accounts.
- We are we all become more flexible more we give more grace.
- The tasks are flexible, easy and fun.
- And the first one is the Barclays One Year Flexible Cash ISA.
- It's very, very stable and flexible, which for me is perfect.
Examples
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Having a flexible work schedule allows him to manage both his job and his studies effectively.
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What jobs, if they have them, are flexible enough to allow time for school?
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Now, that leaves it flexible on issues of class.
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Just be open to allow that to be flexible and to change.
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You need to be willing to be flexible and change with the times.
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You have a flexible schedule.
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Companies can only succeed if they are flexible enough to follow customer demand.
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For middle-grade fiction, we created a system that is flexible and allows for different solutions.
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Both have built manufacturing systems flexible enough to adapt to the ever-changing needs of their customers.
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The key issue is responsiveness, and lawyers working reduced or flexible schedules are generally able to provide it.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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4.9
Able to change to fit new conditions
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4.8
Willing to help others and change plans for them
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3.4
Able to change to fit new situations
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6.0
Easily influenced by others and likely to change opinions
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4.2
Easy to bend or shape
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3.4
Able to change easily and deal with new situations
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5.5
Easily changed or influenced, like a child's mind
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6.5
Willing to change ideas or plans to fit a situation
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4.4
Able to change and adapt easily to new ideas or situations
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4.7
Able to adapt easily to new ideas and situations
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8.3
Able to change appearance or behaviour easily to fit different situations
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7.5
Able to change to fit new conditions
Able to change quickly to fit different needs
Able to bend and change without breaking
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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6.3
A test in which a thin tube with a camera goes into the lower bowel to look for small growths
- Specialized
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6.3
A thin flexible tube with a light used to look inside the lower part of the colon
- Specialized
A farming tool with small metal teeth that follows the ground to remove weeds
How Flexible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flexible comes from the old Latin roots flex and flectere, meaning 'bend'. So a flexible person, plan, or rule can 'bend' to fit new needs or situations.