Rigid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not flexible or pliant; stiff.
  • adj. Not moving; fixed.
  • adj. Marked by a lack of flexibility; rigorous and exacting: "We have watered down a rigid training . . . until we now have an educational diet in many of our public high schools that nourishes neither the classes nor the masses” ( Agnes Meyer).
  • adj. Scrupulously maintained or performed: rigid discipline. See Synonyms at stiff.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Stiff, rather than flexible.
  • adj. Fixed, rather than moving.
  • adj. Rigorous and unbending.
  • adj. Uncompromising.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
  • adj. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Stiff; not pliant or easily bent; not plastic or easily molded; resisting any change of form when acted upon by force; hard.
  • Not easily driven back or thrust out of place; unyielding; firm.
  • Not easily wrought upon or affected; inflexible; hence, harsh; severe; rigorous; rigorously framed or executed: as, a rigid sentence; rigid criticism.
  • Strict in opinion, conduct, discipline, or observance; uncompromising; scrupulously exact or exacting: as, a rigid disciplinarian; a rigid Calvinist.
  • Stiff in outline or aspect; harsh; hard; rugged; without smoothness, softness, or delicacy of appearance.
  • Sharp; severe; bitter; cruel.
  • In dynamics: Absolutely incapable of being strained.
  • Resisting stresses.
  • Synonyms and Severe, Rigorous, etc. (see austere), inflexible, unbending, unyielding.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. incapable of compromise or flexibility
  • adj. fixed and unmoving
  • adj. designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
  • adj. incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
  • adj. incapable of or resistant to bending
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    moving    compromising    flexible   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    rigidly    rigidity    rigidness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unpliant    austere    unmitigated    exact    stern    inflexible    rigorous    unyielding    severe    strict   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    frigid   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    strict    stiff    exact    formal    stern    tight    steady