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Definition of flexible : 1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
2. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
3. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.

Synonyms:

flexile, tensile, tractile, conciliative, waxy, extensile, conciliatory, stiff, compromising, double-jointed, spongy, stretched, moldable, hard, stretchable, whippy, docile, soft, change, willowy, bending, adaptive, impressionable, suggestible, bendable, workable, negotiable, fictile, manageable, flexuous

changeful, inconstant, fluid, reformable, convertible, alterable, movable, wavering, restless, precarious, transformable, vicissitudinous, flighty, mutable, ever-changing, irresolute, vacillating, protean, unsteady, fickle, unsettled, adjustable, shifting, unstable, varying, volatile, versatile, changeable, transposable, variable, mercurial, modifiable

ductile, receptive, pliable, earnest, acquiescent, pliant, persuadable, eager, biddable, assenting, tractable, susceptible, ready, yielding, agreeable, compliant, malleable, cooperative, submissive, willing, tame, amenable, adaptable, plastic

limber, buoyant, springy, lithe, resilient, stretchy, elastic, extensible, supple

Usage examples:

• Her past was a flexible, india- rubber kind of a past that she stretched out after her. - "Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero", F. Hopkinson Smith.
• Vaura was pale for she had slept none, her eyes looking larger and her dainty and flexible lips a deep red. - "A Heart-Song of To-day", Annie Gregg Savigny.
• It was creeping on eight soft and flexible legs, and, on seeing me, made every effort to escape. - "Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom", Samuel Griswold Goodrich.