Crossword-Solution: SUPPLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Supple | a. | Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers. |
| Supple | a. | Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. |
| Supple | a. | Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. |
| Supple | v. t. | To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. |
| Supple | v. t. | To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. |
| Supple | v. i. | To become soft and pliant. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “SUPPLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| make pliant and flexible | 1 answer |
| Like an acrobat's limbs | 1 answer |
| Easily bent, as limbs | 1 answer |
| Capable of being folded without creasing or breaking | 1 answer |
| Loose-jointed | 2 answers |
| Bending easily | 4 answers |
| BENDING readily | 5 answers |
| Loose-limbed | 5 answers |
| easily bent | 6 answers |
| squashy | 6 answers |
| Not rigid | 7 answers |
| bendable | 10 answers |
| THAT will bend without breaking | 10 answers |
| COMBINING FORMS BENDING | 10 answers |
| A TOOL FOR BENDING | 11 answers |
| BENDING FORWARD | 11 answers |
| Pliant | 11 answers |
| A CURVING OR BENDING | 11 answers |
| BENDING AND SNAPPING BACK READILY WITHOUT BREAKING | 11 answers |
| whippy | 15 answers |
| ductile | 18 answers |
| willowy | 21 answers |
| Lithe | 22 answers |
| Limber | 22 answers |
| Malleable | 29 answers |
| Elastic | 38 answers |
| Bouncy | 39 answers |
| Tractable. | 46 answers |
| Pliable | 47 answers |
| Accommodating | 55 answers |
| graceful | 58 answers |
| Manageable | 59 answers |
| compliant | 61 answers |
| Resilient | 73 answers |
| Mobile. | 73 answers |
| Flexible | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SUPPLE (5)
Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest; And the forest’s life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch’s supple sinews; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily.
She sat with the ease that belongs to persons of an essentially happy nature, who can find a comfortable spot almost anywhere; who are supple, and quick in adapting themselves to circumstances.
The little procession then moved forward—the man in front bearing the light, the two bony women next, supporting between them the small and supple one.
Her fingers were very supple, and she could make a duck and a cow and a sheep and a fox and a rabbit and even an elephant.
The gentle sea-breeze blew Marguerite’s hair about her face, and sent the ends of her soft lace fichu waving round her, like a white and supple snake.
Quotes with SUPPLE (3)
Love Embracing Tao, you become embraced. Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn. Clearing your vision, you become clear. Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial. Opening your heart, you become accepted. Accepting the World, you embrace Tao. Bearing and nurturing, Creating but not owning, Giving without demanding, Controlling without authority, This is love.
I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.
A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “Which people, in history, might have been the happiest?” If I properly understand the question, and if it is not altogether beyond the scope of a human answer, I can think of nothing to say except that at a certain time and under certain circumstances every people must have experienced such a moment or else it never was [a people]. Then again, human nature is no vessel for an a…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1979–2020).