FIBROUS Synonyms

• lean and sinewy

• (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew

• forming viscous or glutinous threads

• consisting of or containing string or strings

• capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking

• easily influenced

• capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

• capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy

• a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together

• a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material

• able to adjust readily to different conditions

• benign tumor containing fibrous tissue (especially in the uterus)

• thin in diameter; resembling a thread

• capable of being changed

• able to flex; able to bend easily

• making or willing to make concessions

• able to adjust readily to different conditions

• bending and snapping back readily without breaking

• a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson

• (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable

• (used of artifacts) easily bent

• (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely

• attach the limber

• cause to become limber

• gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease

• easily influenced

• capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

• susceptible to being led or directed

• capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

• able to adjust readily to different conditions

• capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking

• capable of being influenced or formed

• capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

• able to adjust readily to different conditions

• capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking

• like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness

• recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like

• elastic; rebounds readily

• of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong

• forming viscous or glutinous threads

• (British informal) very poor in quality

• having a strong physiological or chemical effect

• an ordinary man

• the dead body of a human being

• to a great degree

• in a stiff manner

• not moving or operating freely

• strong, vigorous

• rigidly formal

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• very drunk

• gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease

• (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable

• (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely

• make pliant and flexible

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• of or relating to wire

• lean and sinewy

• of hair that resembles wire in stiffness