ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsSsupple
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supple
Meaning: bending or moving easily without stiffness
supple in a sentence
How supple is used in real sentences:
The dancer remained supple through years of careful training.
The supple branches bent beneath the snow without snapping.
“Young willows, once clipped repeatedly, sent up supple shoots that bent over currents without snapping.”
— from the passage The Valley Remembers
Synonyms for supple
Other words for supple — flexible, pliant and limber — carry the same meaning.
- flexible
- pliant
- limber
Antonyms of supple
Words that mean the opposite of supple:
- rigid
- stiff
- inflexible
Where it comes from
From Old French souple, meaning 'pliant or yielding.'
Memory hook
SUPPLE sounds like 'soft pull': something supple bends when pulled.