supple as a verb: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
- 2
- 3
supple
verb
1 supple
Make pliant and flexible.
adjective
1 supple
Gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease.
synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, sinuous.
Roget 324:
soft,
tender,
supple;
pliant,
pliable;
flexible,
flexile;
lithe,
lithesome;
lissom,
limber,
plastic;
ductile;
tractile†,
tractable;
malleable,
extensile,
sequacious†,
inelastic;
aluminous†;
remollient†.
yielding
etc.
v.;
flabby,
limp,
flimsy.
doughy,
spongy,
penetrable,
foamy,
cushiony†.
flaccid,
flocculent,
downy;
edematous,
oedematous†,
medullary [Anat.],
argillaceous,
mellow.
soft as butter,
soft as down,
soft as silk;
yielding as wax,
tender as chicken.
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Roget 886:
servile,
obsequious;
supple,
supple as a glove;
soapy,
oily,
pliant,
cringing,
abased,
dough-faced,
fawning,
slavish,
groveling,
sniveling,
mealy-mouthed;
beggarly,
sycophantic,
parasitical;
abject,
prostrate,
down on ones marrowbones;
base,
mean,
sneaking;
crouching
etc.
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Polish: gibki
2 supple
used of e.g. personality traits Readily adaptable:
— A supple mind.
synonym: limber.
3 supple
used of persons' bodies Capable of moving or bending freely.
synonym: limber.
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