bendier

Adjective (1)

bendy (comparative bendier, superlative bendiest)

1. Having the ability to be bent easily.
   • Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.

   Synonyms:

   flexible, pliable, supple

2. (informal) Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily; resilient.
   • When I was in the scene in the barn he encouraged me to do as many contortions as I could, and he seemed to like the fact I was so 'bendy.' … After all how many young actresses in Hollywood are "bendy"?2010 September 1, Jackie K. Cooper, “Ashley Bell: The Last Exorcism Introduces the "Bendy" Girl”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 09 May 2013

   Synonyms:

   flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, supple

3. Containing many bends and twists.
   • a bendy road

   Synonyms:

   sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisty, winding, windy

4. Articulated.
   • “The bendy bus is very easy to get on to and can carry twice as many passengers and more people can sit down,” Ms. Cottam said.2009 January 31, Deal Book, “Defining Good or Bad Design”, in NYT, retrieved 09 May 2013

   Synonyms:

   articulated, jointed

Adjective (2)

bendy (not comparable)

1. Divided into diagonal bands of colour.
   • 7. Talbot, Bendy gules and argent; 8. Comyn, Gules, three garbs within a tressure flory counter-flory or; 9. Valence, Barry of ten argent and azure, an orle of martlets gules;1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 438

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