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supple 音標拼音: [s'ʌpəl] a. 柔軟的,逢迎的,順從的
vt. 使柔軟,使順從 柔軟的,逢迎的,順從的使柔軟,使順從 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. [ 1913 Webster] The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. [ 1913 Webster] If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending; flattering; fawning; soft. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster] The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. [ 1913 Webster] A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter' s mind and suppled her will. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] They should supple our stiff willfulness. -- Barrow. [ 1913 Webster] 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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