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# supple

«supple» in Mova's school dictionary: **Able to bend and move easily: a supple body, supple joints** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (supple, suppler, supplest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Able to bend and move easily: a supple body, supple joints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supple/#m1)

2) Soft and bending without cracking: supple leather, a supple branch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supple/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A body and materials word. In PE, stretching keeps muscles supple; gymnasts and dancers are very supple. In science, materials like rubber and willow twigs are supple. In The Wind in the Willows, the supple willow branches bend over the river.

### examples

- Gymnasts are very supple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supple/#x1)
- Stretching every day keeps your body supple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supple/#x2)
- Willow twigs are supple enough to weave baskets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supple/#x3)
- The old leather boots were still soft and supple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supple/#x4)
- Cats are supple and can squeeze through gaps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supple/#x5)
- Oil keeps the saddle supple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supple/#x6)

### note

Adjective; comparative «suppler», superlative «supplest»; noun «suppleness». Similar: flexible, bendy. Opposite: stiff, rigid.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «supple» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supple/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.