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flexile

flexile adjective: flexible; capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking.

Adjective

flexile (comparative more flexile, superlative most flexile)

  1. Flexible; capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking.
    • Rooted in earth each cloven hoof descends, / And round and round her flexile neck she bends […].1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 24

Forms of flexile

comparativemore flexile
superlativemost flexile

Origin of flexile

From Latin flexil(em).

Words formed from flexile

Questions about flexile

What does flexile mean?
Flexile means flexible; capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking.
What part of speech is flexile?
Flexile is an adjective.

Words near flexile in the dictionary

  1. flexid
  2. flexidisc
  3. flexidiscs
  4. flexids
  5. flexihours
  6. flexile
  7. flexileave
  8. flexility
  9. flexing
  10. flexing off
  11. flexing on

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