Supple
['sʌp(ə)l] or ['sʌpl]
Definition
(verb.) make pliant and flexible; 'These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use'.
Typed by Leigh--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.
(a.) Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.
(a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
(v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.
(v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
(v. i.) To become soft and pliant.
Edited by Helen
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Pliant, flexible, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bent.[2]. Yielding, compliant, submissive, humble, not obstinate.[3]. Servile, obsequious, cringing, slavish, fawning, grovelling, sycophantic.
Editor: Simon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pliant, bending, yielding, flexible, elastic, servile, fawning, cringing,adulatory, sycophantic, lithe, limber, compliant
ANT:Firm, unbending, unyielding, stiff, stubborn, inflexible, inelastic,independent, self-assertive, supercilious
Typist: Xavier
Definition
adj. pliant: lithe: yielding to the humour of others: fawning.—v.t. to make supple: to make soft or compliant.—v.i. to become supple.—n. Supp′leness.—adj. Supp′le-sin′ewed having supple sinews: lithe.—Supple Jack (U.S.) one of various climbing-shrubs with strong stems: a pliant cane.
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Examples
- In the process the leather is made smooth, lustrous, supple and waterproof. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His attitude is stately; he is lithe and supple; all his movements are full of grace. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She came swiftly out to us, as straight as a lily on its stem, and as lithe and supple in every movement she made as a young cat. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I felt, as I looked upon that supple figure, alive with nervous energy, that it was indeed a strenuous day that awaited us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Remember, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself; my height is superior to thine; my joints more supple. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In France it had been betrayed a second time by a Bonaparte, a nephew of the first Napoleon, but a much more supple and intelligent man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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