bendable
adj/ˈbɛndəbəl/
Etymology From bend + -able.
1
Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
- It was quite a shock to find when one stroked her that the China Cat, though alive, was still china, hard, cold, and smooth to the touch, and yet perfectly brisk and absolutely bendable as any flesh and blood cat.1912, E. Nesbit, chapter 6, in The Magic World:
- The father scorned stooping. Neither his body nor his mind was bendable.1944, Emily Carr, “Snow”, in The House of All Sorts:
2 more examples
- When necessity dictates, our laws are as bendable as licorice to our presidents, and if their private conversations had been taped an awful lot of history would be different now.1974, Arthur Miller, “The Limited Hang-Out: The Dialogues of Richard Nixon as a Drama of the Antihero”, in Steven R. Centola, editor, Echoes Down the Corridor, Viking, published 2000, page 145:
- The tough, bendable fabric combines hydrogels — such as those found in contact lenses or jello – with glass fibers. This particular combination maximizes its resilience, making the material 100 times tougher than hydrogels and 25 times tougher than glass fiber fabric, based on the amount of energy needed to destroy it.2017 July 16, Jenny Marc, Katy Scott, “Revolutionary gel is five times stronger than steel”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2025:
- Antonyms
- rigid
- Derived terms
- unbendable
- Related terms
- bendability