supple 音标拼音: [s'ʌpəl]
a . 柔软的,逢迎的,顺从的
vt . 使柔软,使顺从
柔软的,逢迎的,顺从的使柔软,使顺从
supple adj 1 :
moving and bending with ease [
synonym : {
lissome }, {
lissom },
{
lithe }, {
lithesome }, {
slender }, {
supple }, {
svelte },
{
sylphlike }]
2 : (
used of e .
g .
personality traits )
readily adaptable ; "
a supple mind "; "
a limber imagination " [
synonym : {
limber },
{
supple }]
3 : (
used of persons '
bodies )
capable of moving or bending freely [
synonym : {
limber }, {
supple }]
v 1 :
make pliant and flexible ; "
These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use "
Supple \
Sup "
ple \,
v .
i .
To become soft and pliant .
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1913 Webster ]
The stones . . .
Suppled into softness as they fell . --
Dryden .
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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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1913 Webster ]
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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145 Moby Thesaurus words for "
supple ":
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
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