A Topical Dictionary: Search for supple

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English

Etymology

From souple.

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈsʌpəl/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-supple.ogg

Adjective

supple

Translations

Finnish: taipuisa, notkea

Finnish: taipuisa, notkea

Finnish: taipuisa, myöntyvä

Italian: duttile,malleabile

et:supple fr:supple io:supple pl:supple te:supple vi:supple

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.
--Spenser.
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2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
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A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's
mind and suppled her will. --Locke.
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They should supple our stiff willfulness. --Barrow.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Supple \Sup"ple\, v. i.
To become soft and pliant.
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The stones . . .
Suppled into softness as they fell. --Dryden.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate; submissive to
guidance; as, a supple horse.
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If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it
hardens the offender. --Locke.
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3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning;
obsequious. --Addison.
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Syn: Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending;
flattering; fawning; soft.
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WordNet supple
adj 1: gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome,
lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, svelte,
sylphlike]
2: (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a
supple mind"; "a limber imagination" [syn: limber]
3: (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending
freely [syn: limber]
v : make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled
by frequent use"

Moby Dictionary
Machiavellian , Machiavellic , 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 , 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