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Definitions for Supple

[1] bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible: a supple bough.
[2] characterized by ease in bending; limber; lithe: supple movements.
[3] characterized by ease, responsiveness, and adaptability in mental action.
[4] compliant or yielding.
[5] obsequious; servile.
[6] to make or become supple.
[7] bending easily without damage
[8] capable of or showing easy or graceful movement; lithe
[9] mentally flexible; responding readily
[10] disposed to agree, sometimes to the point of servility
[11] rare to make or become supple

Words related to Supple

lithe, elastic, pliable, limber, agile, malleable, springy, pliant, flexible, resilient, graceful, svelte, wiry, bending, rubber, yielding, stretch, adaptable, ductile, lissome

Words nearby Supple

supper, supper club, suppertime, suppiluliumas i, supplant, supple, supplejack, supplely, supplement, supplemental, supplemental air

Origin of Supple

1250–1300; (adj.) Middle English souple flexible, compliant < Old French: soft, yielding, lithe < Latin supplic- (stem of supplex ) submissive, suppliant, equivalent to sup- sup- + -plic-, variously explained as akin to plicāre to fold1, bend (thus meaning “bent over”; cf. complex), or to plācāre to placate1 (thus meaning “in the attitude of a suppliant”); (v.) Middle English supplen to soften, derivative of the noun (compare Old French asoplir )

Other words from Supple

sup·ple·ness , noun
un·sup·ple , adjective
un·sup·ple·ness , noun
un·sup·p·ly , adverb

Word origin for Supple

C13: from Old French souple, from Latin supplex bowed

Synonyms for Supple

agile, elastic, flexible, graceful, limber, lithe, malleable, pliable, pliant, resilient, springy, svelte, wiry, bending, rubber, stretch, yielding, adaptable, ductile, lissome, lithesome, moldable, plastic, stretchy, willowy