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adjustable
[uh-juhs-tuh-buhl] 
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adjustable
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alterable |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adaptable, changeable, conformable, flexible, malleable, modifiable, pliable, tractable |
| Main Entry: | convertible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changeable |
| Synonyms: | able to be changed, adaptable, adjustable, exchangeable, modifiable, swappable, switchable |
| Main Entry: | elastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adaptable, tolerant |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adjustable, airy, animated, bouncy, buoyant, complaisant, compliant, ebullient, effervescent, expansive, flexible, gay, high-spirited, lively, recuperative, resilient, soaring, spirited, sprightly, supple, variable, vivacious, volatile, yielding |
| Antonyms: | difficult, inflexible, intolerant, unadaptable, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | flexible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliable, bendable |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, spongy, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | brittle, inflexible, resistant, rigid, stiff, unbendable, unpliable, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | flexible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adaptable, responsive |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, adjustable, amenable, biddable, complaisant, compliant, discretionary, docile, gentle, going every which way, hanging loose, like putty in hands, manageable, open, rolling with punches, tractable, variable |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, obstinate, ornery, stern, stubborn, unaccommodating, unadaptable, unresponsive, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | fluid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adaptable, changeable |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, changeful, flexible, floating, fluctuating, indefinite, malleable, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable |
| Notes: | fluids include liquids and gases; a liquid is a fluid with a fixed volume, and a gas is a fluid that can expand indefinitely liquid is a substance that flows and takes on the form of its container; a fluid - substance with no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure - can be a liquid but it can also be a gas |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, stable, unchangeable |
| Main Entry: | movable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transportable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, adjustable, ambulatory, conveyable, deployable, detachable, in parts, liftable, loose, mobile, motile, moving, not fastened, not fixed, on wheels, portable, portative, removable, separable, shiftable, transferable, turnable, unattached, unfastened, unstationary, unsteady |
| Antonyms: | fixed, immovable, permanent, unmovable, untransportable |
| Main Entry: | alterable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changeable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, adjustable, flexible, fluid, malleable, modifiable, mutable, reversible. transformable, variable, variant |
| Main Entry: | suggestible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flexible |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, soft, spongy, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding |
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