Antonyms of adj inflexible

4 senses of inflexible

Sense 1
inflexible (vs. flexible) -- (incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose")

flexible (vs. inflexible) -- (capable of being changed; "flexible schedules")
        => limber, supple -- ((used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination")
        => negotiable, on the table -- (able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise; "negotiable demands"; "the proposal is still on the table")

Sense 2
uncompromising (vs. compromising), sturdy, inflexible -- (not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty")


Sense 3
inflexible (vs. flexible) -- (resistant to being bent; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade";)

flexible (vs. inflexible), flexile -- (able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches")
        => bendable, pliable, pliant, waxy -- (capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree")
        => double-jointed -- (having unusually flexible joints especially of the limbs or fingers)
        => limber, supple -- ((used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely)
        => limber -- ((used of artifacts) easily bent)
        => spinnable, spinnbar -- (capable of being spun into fibres)
        => stretched -- ((of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching; "well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury")

Sense 4
inflexible, rigid, unbending -- (incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate")

INDIRECT (VIA unadaptable) -> adaptable -- (capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use; "to succeed one must be adaptable"; "the frame was adaptable to cloth bolts of different widths")

Similarity of adj inflexible

4 senses of inflexible

Sense 1
inflexible (vs. flexible) -- (incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose")
       => adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent -- (impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency")
       => die-hard (prenominal), rock-ribbed -- (tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated; "an inflexible (or die-hard) conservative"; "rock-ribbed republican")
       => fossilized, fossilised, ossified -- (set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system")
       => hard-core -- (stubbornly resistant to change or improvement; "hard-core addicts")
       => ironclad, brassbound -- (inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule")

Sense 2
uncompromising (vs. compromising), sturdy, inflexible -- (not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty")
       => hard-line, hardline -- (firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy")

Sense 3
inflexible (vs. flexible) -- (resistant to being bent; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade";)
       => muscle-bound -- (having stiff muscles as the result of excessive exercise; "he arrived accompanied by two muscle-bound body guards")
       => rigid, stiff -- (incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck")
       => semirigid -- (not fully rigid)
          Also See-> inelastic#1

Sense 4
inflexible, rigid, unbending -- (incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate")
       => unadaptable (vs. adaptable) -- (not adaptable)