suppleness
1
4.7
- noun
- /ˈsʌplnəs/
:
adaptabilidad
- His mental suppleness helped him navigate the unexpected challenges of starting a new job.
- strength and suppleness
- great suppleness
Examples
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I appealed to him to be with me during the workshop and to let me share his power, strength, suppleness, keen sensitivity, and agility.
Academic text (1990) -
The hands of Mickey Sabbath, knotted with arthritis, are haunted by ghosts of an ancient suppleness.
Academic text (1997) -
Suppleness is a very good thing.
Blog text (24) -
Suddenly, with unexpected suppleness, he has leaped to his feet.
Fiction book (1994) -
" Now there's only one test left," he thundered, "the test of suppleness."
Fiction book (1998) -
The validation is implicit in his inclusive suppleness of voice.
Academic text (2017) -
It had been oiled and handled to great suppleness and seemed to be quite strong.
Fiction book (1990) -
Suppleness will overcome strength.
Fiction book (2000) -
The greater suppleness of this approach also enabled him to accept a limited role for "theorem-making" (or what the Poles and others call praxiology) within the non-theoretical practices.
Academic text (1991) -
Such figurative suppleness also motivates Nineveh's probing attention to the human body as a locus of intimacy, historical damage, and sympathetic acuity.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
153
3.6
Ability to change plans or actions easily to fit new situations
11
3.9
Being able to change and work well in new situations
8
5.0
How easily someone or something changes to fit new situations
4
6.3
The ability to change or adapt easily in new situations
1
3.8
How easy it is to change something to fit different needs
1
4.6
Ability to change easily to new situations
1
6.1
Able to change opinions or plans easily
1
6.7
A quality of changing easily in mind or body
The ability to change to fit new situations
The ability to change to fit new situations
Ability to bend or change easily
Changing how you act and look to fit different people or places
Antonyms
How Flexible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Suppleness comes from an old root meaning 'to fold' or 'bend', the same idea you see in words like ply and comply. So a supple mind is one that can 'bend' or change easily to meet new situations.