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Definition: Flexile |
FlexileAdjective1. Able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flexile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Flexile \Flex"ile\, adjective. [Latin expression flexilis.]. (references) |
Synonym: FlexileSynonym: flexible (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inflexible (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Softness | Adjective: soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile, tractable; malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic; aluminous; remollient. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flexile | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flexile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | élastique (flexible). (various references) | |
German | flexible, flexibel (flexible). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | exileflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flexível (flexible), versátil (fickle, flighty, versatile), móvel (mobile, piece of furniture). (various references) | |
Romanian | flexibil (ductile, flexible, inflected, limber, manageable, pliable, pliant, supple, willowy, yielding), suplu (elastic, flexible, graceful, light, lissom, lithe, slender, slim, supple, tractable, willowy, yielding), maleabil (amenable, easy, flexibile, malleable, pliable, pliant, soft, tractable, unctuous, yielding). (various references) | |
Spanish | flexible (flexible). (various references) | |
Turkish | yumuşak başlı (amenable, blancmange, compliant, docile, dovelike, flexible, good tempered, kind, meek, obedient, pliable, pliant, soft, toward), uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding), hareket kabiliyeti yüksek (flexible), esnek (elastic, flexible, limber, limp, lithe, loose-jointed, nonrigid, non-rigid, pliable, pliant, resilient, responsive, spring, springy, sprung, supple), değişken (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, erratic, factor, fickle, fitful, flexible, fluid, fluxional, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, inequable, labile, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, sliding, streaked, streaky, swinging, uncertain, unfunded, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, versatile). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рухливий (agile, nimble, running), різнобічний (all around, catholic, miscellaneous, various), гнучкий (applicant, ductile, elastic, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, supple, versatile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mền dẻo (flexible), linh hoạt (flexible), dẻo (flexible, plastic, plastically, soft, yielding), dễ uốn nắn linh động (flexible), dễ uốn dễ sai khiến (flexible), dễ thuyết phục (flexible). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Flexile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flexie, flexilis, flexitech, flexlite, Ulexite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "flexile" (pronounced 'Flex"ile'): Agile, Anile, Attractile, Axile, Bevile, Contractile, Debile, Facile, Flabile, Fluxile, fragile, indocile, Protractile, retractile, sterile, strobile, tractile, Whetile, Whitile. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-l-l-x" | |
-2 letters: exile, fille. | |
-3 letters: feel, fell, file, fill, flee, flex, ilex, lief, life. | |
-4 letters: eel, elf, ell, fee, fie, fil, fix, ill, lee, lei, lex, lie. | |
-5 letters: ef, el, ex, if, li, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-l-l-x" | |
+1 letter: flexible. | |
+3 letters: inflexible. | |
+4 letters: reflexively. | |
+5 letters: semiflexible. | |
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