elastick

Adjective

elastic (comparative more elastic, superlative most elastic)

1. Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
   • The rope is somewhat elastic, so expect it to give when you pull on it.
2. Made of elastic.
   • elastic band
3. Of clothing, elasticated.
4. Sensitive to changes in price.
   • Demand for entertainment is more elastic than demand for energy.
5. springy; bouncy; vivacious
   • He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health. Her face, of course, he could not analyze, since he had caught only the one brief but convincing glimpse of it.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars
6. Pervasive, all-encompassing.
   • It was now about six o'clock, and that first freshness was on the air, which is to the day what youth is to life,—so light, so elastic, so sweet, and so brief:...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 74

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