What does SUPPLE mean?
Definitions for SUPPLE
ˈsʌp əlsup·ple
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word SUPPLE.
Princeton's WordNet
lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlikeadjective
moving and bending with ease
limber, suppleadjective
(used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
"a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
limber, suppleverb
(used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
suppleverb
make pliant and flexible
"These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
Wiktionary
suppleverb
To make or become supple.
suppleadjective
pliant, easy to bend
suppleadjective
lithe and agile when moving and bending
suppleadjective
flexible and compliant
Etymology: From souple, from souple, soupple, from supplex, supplex, of uncertain formation. Either from sub + plico (compare complex), or from sub + placo. More at sub-, placate.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
SUPPLEadjective
Etymology: souple, French.
The joints are more supple to all seats of activity in youth than afterwards. Francis Bacon.
Will ye submit your necks, and chuse to bend
The supple knee? John Milton, Parad. Lost.And sometimes went, and sometimes ran
With supple joints, as lively vigour led. John Milton.No women are apter to spin linen well than the Irish, who labouring little in any kind with their hands, have their fingers more supple and soft than other women of the poorer condition in England. William Temple.
When we’ve stuff’d
These pipes and these conveyances of blood
With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls
Than in our priestlike fasts. William Shakespeare.Ev’n softer than thy own, of suppler kind,
More exquisite of taste, and more than man refin’d. Dryden.If punishment reaches not the mind, and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. John Locke.
There is something so supple and insinuating in this absurd unnatural doctrine, as makes it extremely agreeable to a prince’s ear. Addison.
Each part depriv’d of supple government,
Shall stiff, and stark, and cold appear, like death. William Shakespeare.To Suppleverb
Etymology: from the adjective.
Poultices allaying pain, drew down the humours, and suppled the parts, thereby making the passages wider. William Temple.
To supple a carcass, drench it in water. Arbuthnot.
Knaves having by their own importunate suit,
Convinc’d or suppl’d them, they cannot chuse,
But they must blab. William Shakespeare, Othello.A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter’s mind, and suppled her will, the only end of correction, she established her authority thoroughly ever after. John Locke, on Education.
To Suppleverb
To grow soft; to grow pliant.
The stones
Did first the rigour of their kind expel,
And suppled into softness as they fell. Dryden.
Wikipedia
Supple
Supple is a surname.
ChatGPT
supple
Supple refers to something that is flexible, soft, and easily bends or adjusts without breaking or becoming damaged. It can describe a physical attribute, such as supple skin or leather, or it can describe mental or emotional adaptability, like a supple mind able to change perspective easily.
Webster Dictionary
Suppleadjective
pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers
Suppleadjective
yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse
Suppleadjective
bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious
Suppleverb
to make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather
Suppleverb
to make compliant, submissive, or obedient
Suppleverb
to become soft and pliant
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Supple
sup′l, adj. pliant: lithe: yielding to the humour of others: fawning.—v.t. to make supple: to make soft or compliant.—v.i. to become supple.—n. Supp′leness.—adj. Supp′le-sin′ewed, having supple sinews: lithe.—Supple Jack (U.S.), one of various climbing-shrubs with strong stems: a pliant cane. [Fr. souple—L. supplex, bending the knees—sub, under, plicāre, to fold.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SUPPLE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Supple is ranked #25102 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Supple surname appeared 989 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Supple.
95.6% or 946 total occurrences were White.
1.9% or 19 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.2% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1% or 10 total occurrences were Asian.
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Anagrams for SUPPLE »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of SUPPLE in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of SUPPLE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of SUPPLE in a Sentence
Bathing Culture is my go-to for a delicious, certified organic, biodegradable body wash that smells divine and leaves my skin supple and smooth, i stock up on the gallon jug about every nine months or so to refill my glass pump bottle, which is way more convenient than forgetting to order body wash at the last minute and panic buying something random from a bodega.
This is a regime that is very supple politically. They’re very smart.
The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed ‘scientifically’ through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.
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