Definitions for: Rigid


[adj] incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"
[adj] (aeronautics) 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; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"
[adj] fixed and unmoving; "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look"- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain"
[adj] incapable of compromise or flexibility



Webster (1913) Definition: Rig"id, a. [L. rigidus, fr. rigere to be stiff or numb:
cf. F. rigide. Cf. Rigor. ]
1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.

Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. --Milton.

2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict;
as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid
criticism; a rigid sentence.

The more rigid order of principles in religion and
government. --Hawthorne.

Syn: Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact;
severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated.

Synonyms: fixed, inflexible, intolerant, nonmoving, semirigid, set, stiff, strict, unadaptable, unbending, unmoving

Antonyms: nonrigid

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