'Supple' definitions:
Definition of 'supple'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]
adjective
(used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination" [syn: limber, supple]
adjective
(used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely [syn: limber, supple]
verb
Make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
Definition of 'Supple'
From: GCIDE
- Supple \Sup"ple\, v. i. To become soft and pliant. [1913 Webster]
- The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Supple'
From: GCIDE
- Supple \Sup"ple\ (s[u^]p"p'l), a. [OE. souple, F. souple, from L. supplex suppliant, perhaps originally, being the knees. Cf. Supplicate.]
- 1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. [1913 Webster]
- If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending; flattering; fawning; soft. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Supple'
From: GCIDE
- Supple \Sup"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suppled (s[u^]p"p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Suppling (s[u^]p"pl[i^]ng).]
- 1. To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. [1913 Webster]
- The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. [1913 Webster]
- A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- They should supple our stiff willfulness. --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'supple'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- able to adapt,
- accommodating,
- acquiescent,
- acute,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- agile,
- all-around,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- ambidextrous,
- amphibious,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- athletic,
- bendable,
- bending,
- cagey,
- canny,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- clever,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- ductile,
- elastic,
- ever-changing,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fawning,
- feline,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- fluid,
- formable,
- formative,
- foxy,
- generally capable,
- giving,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- impermanent,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- ingenious,
- ingratiating,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- kaleidoscopic,
- knowing,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- metamorphic,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- moldable,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nimble,
- nonuniform,
- obliging,
- obsequious,
- pawky,
- permutable,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- politic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- ready,
- receptive,
- resilient,
- resourceful,
- responsive,
- rubbery,
- scheming,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- serpentine,
- servile,
- shapable,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- springy,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stretch,
- stretchy,
- submissive,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- susceptible,
- tactical,
- temporizing,
- timeserving,
- toadying,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- transient,
- transitory,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trimming,
- two-handed,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- wily,
- wiry,
- yielding