Synonyms for supple
ˈsʌp əlsup·ple

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1. supple

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Synonyms:
   active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, diligent, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, vigorous, wide awake

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.

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1. supple

   Synonyms:
   pliant, bending, yielding, flexible, elastic, servile, fawning, cringing, adulatory, sycophantic, lithe, limber, compliant

   Antonyms:
   firm, unbending, unyielding, stiff, stubborn, inflexible, inelastic, independent, self-assertive, supercilious

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1. lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlikeadjective

   moving and bending with ease

   Synonyms:
   refined, svelte, slender, lithesome, lissom, limber, slight, polished, lithe, urbane, thin, slim, sylphlike, lissome

   Antonyms:
   awkward, inflexible

2. limber, suppleadjective

   (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable

   "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"

   Synonyms:
   slender, lithesome, lissom, limber, sylphlike, lithe, svelte, lissome

   Antonyms:
   inflexible, awkward

3. limber, suppleverb

   (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely

   Synonyms:
   slender, lithesome, lissom, limber, sylphlike, lithe, svelte, lissome

   Antonyms:
   awkward, inflexible

4. suppleverb

   make pliant and flexible

   "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"

   Antonyms:
   inflexible, awkward

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1. suppleadjective

   Synonyms:
   pliant, flexible, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bent

2. suppleadjective

   Synonyms:
   yielding, compliant, submissive, humble, not obstinate

3. suppleadjective

   Synonyms:
   servile, obsequious, cringing, slavish, fawning, grovelling, sycophantic

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1. suppleadjective

   Synonyms:
   flexible, pliant, lithe, flexible

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1. List of paraphrases for "supple":

   flexible

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How to use supple in a sentence?

1. Hannah Baxter:

   Bathing Culture is my go-to for a delicious, certified organic, biodegradable body wash that smells divine and leaves my skin supple and smooth, i stock up on the gallon jug about every nine months or so to refill my glass pump bottle, which is way more convenient than forgetting to order body wash at the last minute and panic buying something random from a bodega.

2. Robert Ford:

   This is a regime that is very supple politically. They’re very smart.

3. Frank Straus Meyer:

   The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed ‘scientifically’ through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.