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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. make pliant and flexible;
- Example: "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. moving and bending with ease;
[syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]

2. (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable;
- Example: "a supple mind"
- Example: "a limber imagination"
[syn: limber, supple]

3. (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely;
[syn: limber, supple]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Supple \Sup"ple\, v. i. To become soft and pliant. [1913 Webster] The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

supple adj 1: moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike] 2: (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination" [syn: limber, supple] 3: (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely [syn: limber, supple] v 1: make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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