Supple Synonyms and Antonyms

sŭpəl
Capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out, as by hammering or pressure
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. flexible
  2. ductile
  3. flexile
  4. flexuous
  5. malleable
  6. moldable
  7. plastic
  8. pliable
  9. pliant
  10. workable
Easily altered or influenced
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. flexible
  2. pliant
  3. elastic
  4. pliable
  5. agile
  6. lissome
  7. lissom
  8. malleable
  9. yielding
  10. plastic
  11. lithe
  12. ductile
  13. adaptable
  14. flexile
  15. bendable
  16. complacent
  17. compliant
  18. impressionable
  19. graceful
  20. gracile
  21. limber
  22. lithe. flexible
  23. nimble
  24. obsequious
  25. suggestible
  26. lithesome
  27. resilient
  28. springy
  29. stretchy
  30. submissive
  31. slender
  32. versatile
  33. svelte
  34. sylphlike
Antonyms:
  1. rigid
  2. stiff
  3. inflexible
  4. hard
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Capable of withstanding stress without injury
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. flexible
  2. elastic
  3. flexile
  4. resilient
  5. springy
  6. plastic
Capable of adapting or being adapted
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. limber
  2. adaptable
  3. adaptive
  4. adjustable
  5. elastic
  6. flexible
  7. malleable
  8. pliable
  9. pliant
Willing to carry out the wishes of others
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. amenable
  2. biddable
  3. compliant
  4. conformable
  5. docile
  6. obedient
  7. submissive
  8. tractable
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Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. flexible
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. gracility
  2. lissomeness
  3. suppleness

Words Related to Supple

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Supple Sentence Examples

  • The man was much more supple than his age would suggest.

  • Natasha rose slowly and carefully, crossed herself, and stepped cautiously on the cold and dirty floor with her slim, supple, bare feet.

  • Jessi's body was supple and relaxed in his arms, her gray eyes wide and her features flushed.

  • The movement of the balls will keep the glove supple.

  • In Milan he helped to place Lodovico it Moro in power in 1479, but he reaped less from this supple tyrant than he had expected.

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