Definition of Supple

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Supple

Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.

Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.

Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.

To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.

To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.

To become soft and pliant.

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Supple Quotations

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
Isadora Duncan

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
David Herbert Lawrence

Supple Translations

supple in Spanish is suave

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