Something or someone that is supple bends and moves easily, like a contortionist at a circus sideshow. If you can wrap your legs around your neck, you most likely have a supple body.
Pliant; flexible; easily bent;
Verb
make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
Adjective S.
(used of persons'' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
Adjective S.
(used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
Adjective S.
gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease
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.
Supple
If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.3.
Supple
The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.2.
A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will.
They should supple our stiff willfulness.
Supple
The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell.
Pliant; flexible; easily bent;
To make soft and pliant; to render flexible;
To become soft and pliant.
Usage Examples
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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