Mềm, dễ uốn; dẻo; không cứng

Mềm mỏng

Luồn cúi, quỵ luỵ

Thuần

a supple horse

ngựa thuần

Làm cho mềm, làm cho dễ uốn

Tập (ngựa) cho thuần

Trở nên mềm, trở nên dễ uốn

Flexible, flexile, pliant, bendable, elastic, resilient,pliable, tractile, fictile: He made a rug-beater out of somesupple lengths of bamboo.

Willowy, lithe, limber, nimble,pliant, lissom or lissome, graceful, athletic: She has thesupple body of a dancer.

Tractable, compliant, yielding,accommodating, obliging, complaisant, acquiescent, submissive,unresistant, unresisting, servile, obsequious, ingratiating,fawning, toadying: With supple words the miserable sycophantwormed his way into father's confidence.

Adj. (suppler, supplest) 1 flexible, pliant;easily bent.

Compliant; avoiding overt resistance; artfullyor servilely submissive.

V.tr. & intr. make or become supple.

Suppleness n. [ME f. OF souple ult. f. L supplex supplicissubmissive]