flex
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the act of flexing
he gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies
Types & categories
- flexion hypernym
Related & opposite
- flex derivation
Sense 2 verb
contract
flex a muscle
Types & categories
- shrink hypernym
Related & opposite
- flex derivation
Sense 3 verb
exhibit the strength of
The victorious army flexes its invincibility
Types & categories
- swank hypernym
Sense 4 verb
form a curve
The stick does not bend
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
bend a joint
flex your wrists
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form
bend the rod
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- unbend antonym
- contortion derivation
- bender derivation
- deformation derivation
- fold derivation
- flexile derivation
- bendable derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flex |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | flexion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flex |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | shrink |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | swank |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | unbend |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | flexion |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | bender |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | turn |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | fold |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | bendable |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | change shape |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | crook |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | arch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | incurvate |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | retroflex |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | tilt |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | stoop |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | double up |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | fawn |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | curl up |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | flexion |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | flexion |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | unbend |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | contortion |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | bender |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | deformation |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | fold |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | flexile |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | bendable |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | change shape |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | dent |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | incurvate |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | gnarl |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | crank |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | convolute |