SUPPLE

adj. 1 flexible, flexile, pliant, bendable, elastic, resilient, pliable, tractile, fictile He made a rug-beater out of some supple lengths of bamboo 2 willowy, lithe, limber, nimble, pliant, lissom or lissome, graceful, athletic She has the supple body of a dancer 3 tractable, compliant, yielding, accommodating, obliging, complaisant, acquiescent, submissive, unresistant, unresisting, servile, obsequious, ingratiating, fawning, toadying With supple words the miserable sycophant wormed his way into father's confidence